GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 269, 21 December 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

~— *' . ' . PRESENT FROM KING EDWASSb. ByCable.-Pren AMOctatloß.-OoßjrliM Received 20. 10.15 p.m.in ... _, London, December 10. King Edward has presented to South Africa the table, inkstand and »en whereon and wherewith the South AM. can Union wa« signed. DEATH OF A RUSSIA* GRAND DUKE. Received 20, 10.15 pjn. m.-. St December 20. ' pb.tuary: The Grand Duke Michwl Nicolaviteh, the Czar's grand-uncle GLADSTONE'S CENTENARY. * a i *.. J-roNton, December 19. A deputation from the Bulgarian Go. vernment lays a wreath on Mr^GUdon December 29 the date of the centen»7 of Mr. Gladstone's birth. Memonal services are to be held in all the Bulgarian churches on December 28. ACCIDENT" TO THE CHINA. •n -d j, « X^ Ddon ' B *»»»W 19. «► Ft- a £L°- Com P l ">y'» mall steamIL ?'?' W ton9 ' *"* trade, be. tween Australia and London, damaged her rudder at Tilbury. Hc r passenSr. have been sent to Marseilles to jolnThe Persia, which replaces the Ohini A GREAT RECORD. New York, December 10. Strange, In a Fiat car, covered five miles ,n 3mm 18soc at Indianapolisan automobile record. THE CANADIAN NAVAL BILL. - if c ■ ottaw ». December 19. ■Mr Spourle one of the oldest Codservatim m the Dominion House, & ' wl W £u tb ? , t m I ,(,n < lin S introduction of Bill, fl a,d: "wimt Canada wanta in wfflte» am ' Pffc<!tive wtion **•»• RECEPTION BY THE POPE. ' Rome, December 19. vicar n „ n T- r< ": <, "; P .'!. Mon,ip,or Vidll, war ; postonc in Fiji. • AuSTRIA-inTNGARIAN POLITICS. ■pi, „ , vienna . Docember 10. •' n J™. f ■"" (,emftn 'line mor* n> hj« „ #*?fc l , ™« e<,to e» in the Lower Home of the R iebstrath. The Aerv nans then joined then, in ftbiectine to .e new commorcial treaty UVrM«. The sitting lasted 88 houre.

A MARATHON RACE. ' o„ji„„. a, „. Lo S don ' December 19. Jieat Dorando at the Al- «,„ rV Xrn . rathon «■«•• He covered CANADTAN TRADE DKvwr opiXO. .1,. , . Ottawa, December id. *i Do . mln,n n Steel Comnnnv „nd ♦he Dominion CM Cnmpanv hsv, BmJ >l. wmnted. Mr. Plummer, i.resldent if the concern, stated that Canada's import" for the eight months ending NoJjmber showed an increase of «6^00,WTRELESR TELEGRAPHY. , Melbourne, December 20. it is understood that the. Wireless romnnltec is now drafting its renof. ami thai it recommends that commui'ifntion be established between eert.in islands In fhe Pacific; also that the sv>. tern be under Government control. '