GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 274, 28 December 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FEDERAL HIGH OOMMIBfIBONBa. London, December 27. Dr. Cockburn, speaking at the annual meeting of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce, announced that the Chamber and other Australasian bodies in Losdon were arranging a great banquet to the Right Hon. U. H. field, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth.

MARK TWAIN'S DAUttHTJJR DROWNED. London, December 27. Mark Twain's daughter Jean' wh drowned in a bath, at her father's bouse at Reading, during an epileptic fit. A COPPER COMBINE. London, December 27. It is reported and generally believed that the principal American copper mines are reducing their output BELIEF FUND. London, December 27. The Arding Hobbs relief fund hat reached £SOOO. COLONUL~6i>INION. London, December 27. Ihe Colonial Institute is arranging a series of luncheons whereat prominent colonials will address city men. The idea is based on the Canadian clubs, which have branches throughout the Dominion,

I MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH. London, December 27. | Mien Morrison, slater of ttanei Morrison, news of whose death was cabled on 27th May, and from whom she inherited three million pounds, is dead. Appendicitis was diagnosed on Monday, and she spent ten hours at night with lawyers making her will. An operation was performed on Tuesday, but she never rallied. She left seventeen nephews and nltett £SOOO ! («e) to «ioo,oo§ apiece, end Hits Wilmot Champion ; £BO/100. The eetat* ™' probably yield toe ISxebequer •£IBOO,OOO, and had already paid a quarter of a million when lnheroeJ in May.

GLADSTONE'S CENTENARY. London, December 2V. Daily News readera subicribed £3OOO to purchase election posters and literature on the occasion of Gladstone's centenary. THE GROWTH OP SVDNIvy. Sydney, Mondav. During the past year the building trade in Sydney was the best on record. The aggregate cost of new buildings was £5,810,000 sterling. PHENOMENAL RAINS IN QUEENS--1 LAND. Brisbane, Monday. Phenomenal raina fell along the north coast railway, 20 inches fain.. lt Monkland. *