GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 208, 7 October 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, October 5. The Hon. Clms. A. Duff Miller, AgentGeneral for Xew Brunswick, who was suffering from nervous breakdown, was killed by n fall from a window at n Margate boarding-housic. At an inquest concerning the death a verdict of accidental death was returned. LORD KITCHENER'S ITINERARY. London, October 5.,

Lord Kitchener arrived at Shanghti and inspected the troops. He proceeds from there to Nanking, and subsequently to the Manchurian battlefields. A NEW STEEL PROCESS. London, October 11. A new German electrical furnace, makes lirst-cliiss steel from low grade phosphorised ores. The process is of vast importance to Germany. SCARCITY OF WAR RATIONS. New York, October 5. Mr. Burrows, vioe-prcwident of Libby's. Chicago, states that the armies of 'the European Powers were never so short of war rations as they are now, J war was declared to-morrow America would be unable to assist much with food. D. AND W. MURRAY. London, October 7\. Messrs. D. and W. Murray, mcrolfc- i, have declared a dividend of six shilling, making a ten per cent, dividend for t!i ■ year. £IO,OOO has been applied to the redemption of mortgages and £4030 carried forward. THE CANADIAN NAVY.

Ottawa, October ,1. Commander J. D. Stewart and Stair Paymaster P. J. Ling, of the British Navy, arc now in Ottawa advising the Government regarding the establishment of the naval training schools and the organisation of tlie Canadian navy. BERIBERI AT NEWCASTLE.

London, October 5. Twenty-five eases of beriberi were treated at Newcastle in September.