GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 191, 16 September 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

KITCHENER AND. INDIA. i By; Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Calcutta, September 14. [Lord Kitchener, on embarking, at Tuticorin for Colombo, remarked to aa interviewer: " I shall ever retain the deepest and warmest interest in India, its peoplo and its army." General Crcagh, successor Eo Lord Kitchener n( Cormmander-in-Chief in India, lias reached. Simla. Received 15, 11 p.m. Calcutta, September 15. An influential meeting at Calcutta, i including muharajahs and rajahs, and .European and native gently, decided to erect an equestrian statute to Lo.-d ■Kitchener. -" NEW RIFLE GRENADE. London, September 14. Hale's new rifle grenade was tested at Favcreham. General Wilcocks i>xpressed high appreciation of the inviation mid considered that it would likely ■prove of the utmost value in frontier warfare in India and in bush lighting ii, IVust Africa. A. .MERCHANT RELEASED. j

! Loudon, September 14. Mr. Nicholas Luxemburg, a British I merchant whom Russia compensated 1 for false arrest at Odessa, and who was I ve-arrostcd on landing at Lalto, in the | Crimea, several days ago, has been re(leased. - ■■< COMMERCIAL PRESIDENT'S SUICIDE 'i New York, September 14. Mr. John Castles, president of the i Union Trust Company and director of many corporations, committed suicide i in New York, lit; hud bec n entering from nervous breakdown. SOUTH LONDON TRAMS. London. September 14. The Bluckfriiira Bridge, having becn widened to 103 feet, has been re-opened to enable South of London trams to cross the river.

THE AJXAX STEAMERS. Loudon, September 14. Hie Allan Line has moved its management to Montreal from Glasgow.

THE PUSHFUL TEUTONS. Berlin. September 14. / Aji (-xpert attached to the Germa'i tons.ulato "at Cileutta is visiting "evemteen commercial centres in tierniarty with a view to a comprehensive campaign for pushing German trade in lihba.

! l-ACIFrq RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. Ottawa September 14. A Canadian Government engineer states that it mill l>e necessary to impcirt yellow hi-lior to construct the rein ainder of the mountain section of the gi.-and trunk Pacific railway at Moreentheini. fc

EX-SULTAN OV TURKEY. Constantinople, September 14 The Young Turkish Party has r<-duc-«d Abdul Hamid's pension to 800 TuricKb pounds per month.

COLLISION AT YARMOUTH. London, September 11. > The Port Chalmers, from the Tecs for Loudon and Australia, was extensively damaged in a collision at Yarmouth. Ao. 5 hold was flooded. The vessel was temporarily repaired and then she pro•cceded o n her course

; HALLEY'S GOMET. ' London. September 14. . Plrofesor Wolfe, of the Konigstuhl Oh. ■scrpatoi'y, Heidelberg, announces that Hal-ley's oomet was discovered there •cirHy on Sunday morning; moreover, the, comet wats detected faintly on a ■ph/atogfaphic plate. At Greenwich it, ■wi II be visible to tin- telescope at the end of January next. It will also ba vi siMe as morning star to the naked J eife towards the end of April, and ns an icTcntug star a month later, when very I Ji war the earth. ' I