GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 274, 28 December 1909, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

Hj Cable—Press Association—Copyright Xew York, Thursday.

The Daily Mail of New York states that Dr. Cook's profits' are estimated at .£24,4(10 from his lectures and £SOOO from contributions the newspapers received on his behalf. London, Thursday.

Sir R. W. Perks, M.P., and Mr. John •Ward, Labor M.P., have joined the newly organised Navy League. Xew York, Thursday. .Many Xew York ladies are boycotting non-union blouses, while the ladies of Columbia University are patrolling the strike districts to prevent the arrest of strikers. Six thousand blousemakers at Philadelphia have struck for higher wages and recognition of the union. The battleship Utah was launched at Camden, New Jersey. She is of 21,500 tons, with a speed of 20% knots, and carries ten 12-inch guns. Athens, Thursday.

A serious crisis has arisen through the Military League sustaining the minority. The Government threatens a dictatorship unless M. Lapathiotis, Minister of ■War, is reinstated. Against the wishes of the majority, who really form the opposition, he recently resigned after insulting Mm. Theotokis and Kallis. London, Thursday.

Four laborers, while working in a cellar at the Hotel Wigram, broache'd a brandy cask. All are dead from tie effects of drinking. London, Thursday. Earl Cawdor declared that while "German expenditure on new ships nearly trebled between 1004 and I'JIO, from ■£4,044,000 to £12,100,000, the British expenditure was reduced from £13,508,000 in 1904 to £8,000,000 in 1008 and I £10,250,000 in 1009. New York, Thursday.

The United States Steel Trust is 'distributing a bonus of two million dollars amongst its employees, 00 per cent, in cash and 40 per cent, in stock. London, 'December 25. •The Dunedin Boys' High School ling was welcomed at Edinburgh. Berlin, December 25. Germany is bringing her protectorates in the Pacific into direct communication with the submarine cable system by a wireless station at Maranne Islands, DE. COOK EXPELLED. London, December 25.

The Explorers' Club expelled Dr. Cook after the adverse reports of the committee examining his Mount -Mckinley claim. NICARAGUA*! REVOLUTION. New York, Thursday. Six hundred of both armies were killed and wounded at Vama, and 1900 followers of Zolaya, with General Gonzales_, surrendered to General Estrada, The cruiser Des Moines landed a hospital corps, but no troops. Xew York, December 25. American warships are discharging their surplus stores of food. Two thou sand half - starved Zelayans were brought to Blueliclds. Nine hundred on both sides wore killed. General Estadn captured the entire Government forces at Koina, A NOTORIOUS SWINDLER. New York, December 25. Charles Adams, head of p notorious gang, was arrested in New York on charges of swindling English people of '£50,000 sterling, including a widow in London of £IO,OOO, by a gold brick fraud.

WAIiL-STREET GAMBLERS. New York, December 25. Four gamblers in cotton at l\cw York, led by Paten, won '£2,000,000 sterling on cotton bought ten months' ago at £8 a bale and sold at £.lO.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION. New York, Dcccmlier 25. A gas explosion at Cnrterville colliery, Illinois, entombed fifty miners. Already nine bodies have been recovered.

DEVIL'S ISLAND MUTINEERS. Paris, December 25. The Matin states that there have licen several recent mutinies at Devil's llsland. A number ,of convicts who were rowing a doctor and four warders mutinied and threw the officers overboard, and they were drowned. The mutineers were captured.