GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 316, 16 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GUN ACCIDENTALLY GOES OFF. By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright London, February 14. AVhile the battleship Bulwark was engaged in practice outside Portland breakwater an inch sub-calibre gun accidentally went off, and the projectile traversed the funnel of the cruiser Natal and through her deck. No one was injured. ■ •.'..■< ' RAISULI VERY MUCH ALIVE. London, February 14. The Telegraph's Tangier correspondent says that Ilai.suli is in the best of health. TOBACCO COMBINE'S PROFITS. London, February 14. : The report of the Imperial Tobaeci Company shows' that last year's net profits amounted to £1,632,403. The increase in the tobacco duty seriously af- ' fected the receipts in the latter half of the year. ~ . < | MILLIONAIRE AND ACTRESS. London, Febrsary 14. Mr. August Belmont, the Americsp millionaire, is engaged to Miss Mary Eleanor Robson, an actress. j THE KING'S MOVEMENTS. j London, February 14. King Edward has returned to London from Brighton. , ainU; THE LATE EARL PERCY. London, February 14. Earl Percy died intestate. Deceased's pers'onalty is sworn at £202,058. PORT OF LONDON DUES. i London, February 14. A committee of the' London County Council states that the new Port of London dues seriously affect trade. It suggests a reduction of the dues in favor of exported goods. | EXPLOSION OF FIRE DAMP. London, February 14. An explosion of fire damp sank the British steamer Aboyne in the river Tagus. Five persons were seriously injured.