GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 234, 8 November 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

DORS IT BELONG TO THE WARATAHT By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrifdt Capetown, November 5. A quantity of charred broken decking and a deck hatch have been wasbej asnore at Port Alfred, Cape Colony. Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, November 6. It is believed the wreckage found at Port Alfred is from an old wreck, A MANSION DESTROYED. Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. Londou, November 0. A disastrous fire occurred at the Mar quia of Anglesey's scat at Rugeley. All of the heirlooms and pictures, however wtrc saved, '

OBITUARY, Received Nov. 8, 1.10 a.m. London, November 7. Obituary Viscount Selby, aetat 74, ex-Speaker of the House of Commons.

FIGHT OK TIIK COTTON MARKET Now York, November S. iicitemeiu exists on the New York coiton market over * report that four of the principal "bulls" are in liquidation. i hi'ir lines are clearing at profits of thirteen million ilulliirs. Prices have "lumped heavily.

UNCLE SAM WANTS A NEW PORT. 1-. New 01 *« Novem#er 5. Ueuters Lema correspondent, in a telegram, slates that the United States ha* JHered to liiiy a Pacific port from Peru for n coaling station.

ERADICATING PI.ACCK RATS. Little Popo, November 3. 1 he (iovei nnient of Togoland has ordered cats to be kept in all public buildii'fii frequented by natives, in order to ♦'indicate plague-infested rats. rTogoland lies between the Gold Coast I olimv on the west and Dahomey on the fast. It was proclaimed a protectorate in ISS4. and is administered bv an Ituperinl Governor, assisted by a' Government Council.]

FI'XTHAM BAXK FRAUDS. London, November 5. Hurry Benson's appeal against his conviction in Ihe Feltliam Bank fraud* case wjiß digmi«Hcd.

BOGUS OLD CHINA. London, November 5. As a scowl to the ease of the executes of the late Mr. Charles John nn-kim uirainst Ellis, a obitw dealer in Hnv last, Arthur Thomas Ellis has been arrested at Rotterdam at the instance of the Bntlnh police.