GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 222, 25 October 1909, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

SERVIAN CABINET RESIGNS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrign Belgrade, Oct. 22 The Servian Cabinet has resigned.

BLACKPOOL AVIATION DISPLAY. London, October 22.

At the Blackpool aviation display the judges awarded Farman the £2OOO prize for Wednesday's flight, Rougier £720, and Paulham £2BO.

THE NEXT ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION London, October 22.

The Baltic Mercantile Shipping Exchange has opened a subscription towards Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition.

TRAFALGAR DAY. Ottawa, October 22. In many of the elementary schools ill Canada appropriate lessons were giv;n in connection with Trafalgar Day.

DEATH OF A SHIPBUILDER. London, October 23.

Obituary: Mr. Arthur Wilson, head of the shipbuilding linn of Messrs Thomas Wilson and Sous.

[The deceased, who was educated privately, was connected with the linn of Thomas Wilson. Sons, and Co., Hull, since a liny. Ue was master of llohleiness Foxhounds for twenty-three years an.l held the positions of* High 'Sheriff of Yorkshire and Sheriff of Hull.]

BILINGUAL EDUCATION SCHEME. London, October 22. A controversy is raging in Orangia over General llerzog's bilingual educational scheme. Many TTileh parcnTs consider that children are lieing sacrificed to politicians.

WHNE MANUFACTURE. Paris, Oct. 22 At the Pure Food Congress in Paris representatives of the French wine trade secured a resolution permitting a percentage of sulphuric acid in the manufacture of wine, despite a protest from Professor floutier, President of the Academy of Medicine, and a Russian delegate, warning the congress that its proposal would probably result in the exclusion of French wines from Russia.