GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 238, 13 November 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. By C»bie.-Pren AjtocUtlotk-OopfflfUt Received Nov. 12, 10.20 p.m. Otti ~ November 12. The Canadian I n ..uent lias opened, legislation is |".d M to strengthen ... Inns i >mbinationa which .... .iih enhance prices,

A SCHOOL 01? PEACE. New Y«rk, November 12. The publishers of Boston are devoting ten thousand pounds annually to Hie promotion of peace, au.l inlend to establish an interim tioun I ». hool of pence with n staff of .v ! 'e: and leoturcrs paid from subscription.

THE STUDY OF DYSENTKIIV. London, November 12. Doctor lln lir and -omc student) of the London School of Tropical Medicine are starting for Fiji on the 19th instant to study dysentery. Lord Sheffield will defray the expenses.

KIEL TRIAL DISCLOSURES. London, November 12. The evidence at the Kiel trial showed that dockyard workmen used to crowd the scales when waggons were weighed in order to add weight.

THE ALL-RED ROUTE. London, November 12. The Standard states that the Government has decided to grant £133,000 toiva'cbi the Collooiiey-Blacksod Bay (Ireland) railway in connection with the All Red route to Australasia.

OBITUARY. London, November 12. Obituary: Doctor Dalllnger, Wesleyan scientist, and J. K. Leys, novelist.

AMERICAN NAVAL BASES. Received Nov. 12, 10.35 p.m. New Vork, November 12. President Tnft approved the recommendation of the Army and Navy Board in make Pearl Harlior the chief naval station of the Pacific. A temporary station will b e constructed at Duioii. The proposed improvement to the Manila harbor has been abandoned. Th» protection of the Philippines has been primarily entrusted to the army.

LLOYD GEORGE CONGRATULATED. London, November 12. The American Federation of Labor Convention at Toronto, after hearing p (Ureases by Messrs. Clvnes and Gill, members of the British House of Commons, bringing British trade* union gi (clings, unanimously and warmly congratulated Mr. Lloyd-George on his Budget, which, they held, was intended to secure the welfare and interests of thi. whole people.

SALE OF AUSTRALIAN LINER. i Rome, Novemlier 12 A Genoa firm has purchased the lata Ai'-tralian liner Oroya for .£12,000.

KOREAN ATTACHE ATTACKED BY JAPANESE. New York, November 11. Die New York Herald states that a number of Japanese attacked the Koi.-an military attache during tin i:,!»noenvres at I'tsunomiya with the object of avenging the murder of Print's Ho.

PERSIAN FREEBOOTERS. Teheran, November 11. The arrival of reinforcements has re.insured Russians and other foreigners at Ardebil, which was recently seUed by frcilwoters.

BRITISH CURRENCY. London, November 11. Mr. Frederick lluth Jackson, in hU presidential address at the Institute Of Bankers, emphasised that the country'e cipicncy now consisted of cheques. He was glad to think bankers recognise! that stronger reserves of gold were de"Vi i 1° f ,r " tl ' < ' t tllis currency, and adied that those supplying currency should provide gold reserve*.

THE SUEZ CANAL. •n, cu o proton, November 11. I lie standard's Paris correspondent, red rnng to the Siicb Canal hitch say* negotiations are now proceeding.

PRESIDENT TAFT. New York, November U. President Taft ha« reached WaaJdw ton after a 13,000 miles tour.

NAVAL DOCK FOR CEYLON, November 11. Messrs. Walker, Sons and Company, ■c. well-known Ceylon merchant.la R'lsinghal -street. London, are conatrnctmg a dock and workshops for renalrine naval and other vessels at Ceylon?

MOTOR RACING. . J;< ' lV York, November 11. htrnng, in a Fiat car, won the tenmde race at Atlanta in 7mi„ &ec. He covered one mile in 37.7 second*.

ROBBERS SENTENCED. . London, November H. a jockey with three previous convictions. „„d Higgim, a but- '„,'•, w "° to three years' p rial servitude and fifteen month,' „. rtalei In precious etones, of £4OOOO vorth of Jewels "at the C«f m£ Urn of the property h„ s u, n j^""