GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 243, 19 November 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE PERSIAN DISORDERS. u;Cable,—Press Association—Copyright Teheran, November 17. Rakhim Khan ban Quitted Ardedil, which he and his fellow freeboqtors recently seif-ed. Russians are temporarily protecting the tpwn.

ENTERPRISING SHOWMEN. Paris, November If. > A Parisian music hall has offered £4OOO for thirty iierformanccg tq Midame Steinbcil, who was "recently acquitted on a charge of having murdered her husband and her stepmother. FLOODS AT ADANA. Adana, November 17Rains at Adana, in Asia Minor, have resulted in 500 houses being destroyed. The damage is estimated at several hundred thousanda of pounds. A reliel fund has been opened. A DIVINES ESTATE.

London, November 17. The estate of the Rev. Bernard Wilson, Canon of Winchester, and formerly viear of St. John's Cathedral, Brisbane, is sworn at £43,363. Deceased bemioathed his lands in Queensland for church purposes; nlso ,€SOO to the Bril. banc Cathedral, ,£SOO to the ehurch endowment funds in Brisbane, and £IOOO to the New Guinea - Mission. SUFFRAGIST SENT TO GAO&. '

London, November 17. The suffragette Garnet was sentenced to a month', imprisonment for assaulting Mr. WiMoii Churchill, in default of keeping the pence for six months.

NATURALISED GERMANS. Berlin, November 17. A (.angcrnmn piovemcnt favors legislation declaring that naturalisation abroad does not necessarily involve the loss ( ,f German nationality. For instance, a German naturalised In the I nited States is entitled to claim the German Government's support in relation to any other country except the United States.

INDMMB IN THE TRAXsVAAL. London, November 17. In the House of Lord*. li, r | t'rewe. Secretary of State f or the Colonies replying to Lord Ampthill regarding t1..» Bntijli Indian* In the Tran.vaal, 9 mi Min ' ,t '' rs '» the Transvaal were willing if tlio opportunity offered, to repeal the Xo. i Act of 1007, but relß«<llnir the theoretlenl grievance, wliile he thought his Majesty's subjccti «"?ht to have free access to hU dominions, signs of n movement in that dfrccImn in th,. dominions were not appa.--'MI. but rather showed a hardening in the other direction. He hoped the South African TTnion Parliament would take a liroad view of the matter.

I I'KTFORM MAP OP THE WOULD. , London. November 17. An international conference is Kitting hi London to consider the construction of a map of the world on a uniform system, on a scale of lf| miles to the inch, and 24 delegates including rcnr.'sentalives from Australia, are present. THE CHERRY DISASTER. New York, November 17. j Expert* have ordered carboni* leid gas to be pumped into the Cherry mine, and for the mine to lie re-sealed. The relatives of the entomted mineis are frnnii-ally seeking to prevent the operations. the pitKsiiYTEiuAv cntßcn. London. Novemher 17. Dr. MncAdmn «nd Dr. Muir. of Glasswv. ,ii„i \r r . .| nh „ Young, the Home Missionary -ecretarv. are moderators. elect of »he Church of Scotland and the t'nitcd Free Church.