GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 257, 6 December 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE KIEL FRAUDS. By Gable.—Press Association.—Copyrigiii Reecived 5, 5.6 p.m. Berlin, December 1. , The Kiel dockyard officials charged in connection with the recent alleged fraudi were acquitted.

OBITUARY. Received ti, 1.15 a.m. Copenhagen, December 5. Obituary: Princess Waldemar. Prime Waldcmar and bis three sons, who are touring India, intended to proceed ti Siam, but will now return via Colombo homewards.

EMPIRE PRESS FUND. Received 6, 1.15 a.m. London, December 5. After payment of all expenses, the London Imperial Press Conference shows a credit balance of £.IOO, which w>ll become the nucleus of an Empire Prß3s Union Fund.

INDECENT PUBLICATIONS. London, December 3. Robert Sievier was fined £lO at Bow Street for sending indecent publications through the post.

WHOLESALE POISONING. Berlin, Decembr 3. Five hundred and forty-seven inmates of the - Friedrichsberg lunatic asylum, Hamburg, have been poisoned. Two of the patients are dead and eighty-six »re m a serious condition. The cause of the poisoning is a mystery.

WAR OFFICE MEAT CONTRACT. London, December 3. the Wav OfHec is inviting tenders on 13th April for a year's supply of frozen mutton and beef for the troops at Gibraltar, comencing on Ist July.

TRAITORS SHOT. Cetinje, December 4. Lieutenant Gijkovies and four companions were shot for high treason at Cetinje. The Servian Press violently condemns the action of Montenegro.

FRENCH-CANADIAN TREATY. Ottawa, December 3. The Canadian Parliament has ratified the supplementary treaty with France. It is' designed to satisfy the objections <>f 1-rench agriculturists, and provides for the cancellation, upon a year's notice, enabling the Dominion to enter upon a system of Imperial preference when necessary.