GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 318, 18 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright zParis, February 16. Mr. Strawbridge, an American tourist, Jhas been awarded by a Paris Court £2BOO against an automobile company, from which he hired a car at Biarritz. ■Jt seems that the steering gear of the car broke, the machine overturned, and Mr. Strawbridge had both his legs broken,;.

DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA.

Ottawa, February 16.

The Hon. W S. Feilding, Canadian Minister of Finance, speaking hi the Canadian House of Commons during the debate on the Georgian Bay ship canal, i.said,' the scheme was a thing Canada 'must soon undertake, but it was of the ..■utmost importance that Canada should maintain a high credit in the British -money market. Canada, he s'aid, already had heavy obligations. ,'VIOLET CHARLESWORTH'S DUPE. London, February 16. ~',, Violet Charlesworth and her mother were' committed for trial at the Derby yjAssizfis. Dr. Jones, Violet's former Jancee, testified to lending her £4300. , INTEGRITY OF HOLLAND. The Hague, February 16. General Baron Von Heeckeren asserts that Hanyper, formerly Premier of the Netherlands, frequently discussed the Kaiser's' intervention in 1904. ; SOCIALIST RIOTERS. Berlin, February 16. The police used sharpened sabres at the socialist demonstration at Neumun.ster. Forty-five rioters were seriously injured. ''■ DEVELOPING BRITISH NEW GUINEA. ■ February 16. ■'' The applications to sub-underwrite the British New Guinea Development Company's loan exceeded half a million. A SOLVENT ESTATE. London, February 16. Nicholas Jerri* Wood, who failed for ..,£170,007, paid twenty shillings in the pound and 4 per cent interest. GERMAN MILITARISM. Berlin, February 16. Grand Admiral Keister, at a Navy League meeting in Berlin, declared, "Our armaments on land and sea are costly, ! but they will bring us forward." THE SOMALT MULLAH'S RAID. London, February 16. Details from Abesserawadai show that 110 native soldiers, a European captain, two lieutenants, and two sergeants'were massacrpd by the Somali Mullah, and that eight natives escaped. FRENCH FORCE AMBUSHED. Tangier, February 16. Sultan Massalot ambushed and inflicted heavy loss on a French detachment at Abesbe, in the Wadai district, in North-East Africa. i 0m OF LONDON CHARGES. P- London, February 16. The Australian trade section of the Chamber of Commerce has deputed the Hon. Tavemor and Mr. E. B. Tredwen, an Australian merchant, to interview the Port of London authorities on Thursday, with a view to securing a reduction in the port's charges. RATLING MANCIIURTA. London, February 16. Japan withdraws her objection to the Chrnchan-Aigun railway in Manchuria, and is allowed to participate in finnnein? China, in connection with the South Manchurian railway.