GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 241, 17 November 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ANCLO-GERVAN COMMERCIAL I -i.,iIEBMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received November 10, 11.30 p.m. Berlin, November 16. * ' .A* bill will be introduced in the Reich- * Stag authorising the Federal Council to " extend the Anglo-German provisional commercial agreement till the end of - 1911.

THE KIiNG OF PORTUGAL. London, October 10. Tie King of Portugal was ovationed on arrival at Portsmouth and Windsor Castle. "AIRSHIP DESIGNING. Ottawa, November 15. I The McGill University at Montreal -i lias arranged a lectureship in airship deJ*»^igning. . ' SNOW IN ENGLAND. London, November la. Snow has fallen over one half of the > United Kingdom. \ DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. ) London, November 15. ' Mr. Bodd, a well-known West Hartle-, {tool town councilor, on coming home, found, that his wife had attempted to - commit suicide, after cutting the (, throats of her four young children. INDIAN: iN THE TRANSVAAL. London, November 15. j " 'je request of the British Indian r ' nation, British doctors investigated ' the prison dietary for Indians in the |< [Transvaal, and urgently recommended improvement. \ DEATH OP AN EXPLORER. - London. November 15. Obituary! Baron Dhanis, a West I&frican explorer.

MONASTERY BROKEN' IXTO. ' San Francisco, November 15. Two disguised burglars (brothers) broke into a San Franciscan monastery "' Et Forestgate, attacked the life pretervers and carried off £BOO of the ■ leceipts of bazaars. One man has been .•nested.

A COACHMAN'S SCR'IDE. London, November 15. Worrall. late coachman at florse Hall, banged himself. He is not connected ' With the murder of Mr. CJcorge Storrs. JEnrly last month a burglar, who was • intercepted while cwnping, fatally •tabbed Mr. George Storm, one of the * largest building contractors in England, r ,«t his residence, Gorsc Hall, Stajyi bridge.]