GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 232, 5 November 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE FIRE ON THE OTAKt ■ By Cable—Press Association—Copyrigtrtt Received Nov. 4, 10.45 p4B. I Sydney, Last Nigfct i lln 1 I ndiTwritcio Association fi aj. vised that the Otaki's Are hat been lub* dued. The damage is serious. ANTARCTIC NOMENCLATURE. Loudon, November 3. Lieutenant Shackletou has named tho three mountains disvovewd in the Antarctic .Mount Asijuith, .Mount Harcourt, and Mount Henry Lucy. GERMAN HANK FRAUDS. 1 Berlin, November 3, llerren A\ iliesardt and C. A. Heir, of the Frankfort branch of the Mittal Deutsche Credit Hank, have been arrested. They confessed to embeotfmr 135,000 by means of forgeries. ENGLISH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. , _ London. November 3. The municipal elections show a failure of women candidates throughout tho country. Fifty were nominated in London and five elected. Municipal Reformers had -Majorities in 24 boroughs in London, nml the Progresives had majorities In ii tj . other four IMPERIAL SOLIDARITY. r London, November ». "'ere was a large attendant at .the Colonial institute to hear Sir John CockhurnV paper on " Signs of Imperial . Solidarity." It evoked from Lord Charles Beresford a speech reiterating his city speech as (o the urgent neod of organising defence forces.