GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 276, 30 December 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

PRIZE COURT AWARDS. The National Defence Committee of the Duma has voted a credit of £l9o*000 to jiay the damages awarded to the British ship owner* under the judgments of the Prin Courts in on* neouon with the Kusso-Japuew war> RUSSIAN STEEL INDUSTRY. St. Petersburg, December 28. The new Kuseian steel industry secured its first order trom abroad, the Obukolf Works supplying an rc-rtirti purchaser with 30,000 tons of steeL

TOLSTOI LAID LOW. London, December 28. Count Leo ToUtoi is confined to Ml bed with an attack of fever. CHURCH RE-UNION. London, Two large and influential committees of ministers and laymen of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church have inaugurated confercm??., to discus# the possibility of reunion. ' I'OSTLE GOES TO SOUTH AFRICA. London, December 28. O Tlv® runner ' sailed for South Africa, where he will compete in several oig matches.

boiler explosion. New York, December 28. rne bur-ting of a locomotive boilir at Shawnee, Oklahoma, a part of the Indian Territory," between Texas > Kansas, and Arkansas, killed 5 person and injured 17. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. December 28. The Board of Trade Is inquiring into the bearings and effect of the revised international copyright. A convention at Berlin recommended that the colonies should be urged to come Into line with the Motherland to secure a uniform law throughout the Empire. mi'nicipal builmnos. London, December 28. Lord Ashton opened the Lancaster the beet industry. . London, December 28, Owing to better toll, as compared with nermany, a Continental Arm bat made an offer to several Suffolk far. merj in respeot of growing beet. The foreign factory pays 17a a ton, innplin seed gratis, and pays freight. The oner has been accepted.