GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 192, 17 September 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A FLOOD OP APPUCAHDHB.

KyCaWo.-Press Assoclation.-Oopyriga» P>«ceivcd 16, 11 p.m. London, September 10. There were 3000 applications tor 200 posts under the Labor Exchange* Bill

UNREST IN INDIA. ' Received 16, 11 p.m. , London, September 18. ihere is renewed unrest in Calcutta. Bengali students are systematically assaulting trnmi-nr conductors and refusing to pay fares.

I POLICE OFFICERS PUNISHED. * Received 16, 11 p. m . London, September 16. . lhree police officers at Preston were dismissed and nine reduced in rank tor bribery, drinking and betting.

PERU AST) BOLIVIA. Ktctived 16, 11 p.m. London, September 16. It Is rumored at Lapa* that the Peru, yian Government has sent an ultimatum demanding Bolivia to accept or reject thj! arbitration award.

CANADIAN KAILWAY AND CHIXKBE

„ . LiABOR. .;i deceived September 17, 1.5 a.m. London, September 16. Jhe Tunes' Ottawa correspondent states tl,„t •tl„, (j mml Trunk (oinpiiuy's request for Asiatic later for railway building will be refused. It i« expected the eompanv will be given an extension of time. '

TAXICABS IX LONDON

London, September 15. i One thousand taxicabs are idle ill London owing to lack of competent drivers. Motor cab companies eompl.iin of the new police requirement being to.i rigorous. • "

, HALLEY'S COMET. Tiondon, September 15. , i.id'mvieh photographs reveal a faint impression of the positions of Hallcr'a comet, eonllrining the Heidelberg observation-. ]>r,)f,.s«o r Wolff states that >he emiiet is between Orion and. Ifio fwiiK ,;iid i s moving la a westerly uiivction. ' •'

A KNIGHT'S SUICIDE. . 51 .. , , J' 01 " 10 ". September IS. ; s 'f llulpli Moore, hit,. Higk Commiwiuiier for Southern Nigeria, co - m Ued . sufcide „t Barnes By il,! „ poison. ' taJC ;W