GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 327, 1 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright London, February 27.

Messrs. Reid have agreed to construct 250 miles of branch lines in Newfoundland, receiving £3OOO per mile for construction and 4000 acres per mile for operating the lines. MOTOR-CAR TAXATION. ' l'aris, February 27. The French Chamber of Deputies, by a, large majority, carried a proposal to increase the motor-car tax ; which already produces £244,001). A SPY SENTENCED. Berlin. February 27. A merchant at Algerburg, East Prussia, has been sentenced to four years' ipenal servitude if or espionage.

PIGEON-SHOOTIiNG,

Paris, February 27,

M. Galletti won the triennial pigeonshooting championship at Monte Carlo with a maximum of 25 hits. Mr. Camphell, an Australian, made "17 hits out of 21.

WRECKS ON THE ENGLISH COAST. London, February 27. Several speakers at the Chamber or Shipping protested against the reduction of the coastguard stations. They attributed several wrecks to it.

RUSSIA AND BULGARIA. Constantinople, February 27. Toasts were exchanged by the Czar and King Ferdinand at the Palace Tsarskoye Selo. The banquet has displeased the Turkish newspapers, because it is irreconcilable with the declarations of Russo-Turkish friendship. DIVORCE LAWS. London, February 28. At the Royal Commission on Divorce, Lord Gorell (chairman) drew attention to New Zealand's powers to forbid the publication of reports. Mr. Justice Bigham and Sir Henry Bargrave Deane denounced legal separation.

[ HORRIBLE STABBTNG AFFAIR. | New York, February 28. i Five men hired a taxi-cab at Broadway, -New York, drove to the IWestside Saloon, and called on a man within. One of the occupants stabbed him in the breast. The others, with revolvers directed at the chauffeur's head, forced the chauffeur to drive them full speed. The man died without identifying the murderers, whom the police nave been unable to trace. WHOLESALE BRIBERY ALLEGED. New York, February 28. A sensational trial is proceeding against AUds, a leading Republican i-i New York State and a Senator, who is accused of receiving a bribe in 1901 from Senator Conger, of the American Bridge Company, who affirms that Bills regulating trams, telephones and railways' are frequently introduced for blackmailing purposes. Conger's companies are maintained by special corruption funds. The accusation against Allds is due to a bridge Bill being finally enacted. Frank Conger, the Senator's brother, paid £I2OO _to ATMs and other legislators.