GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 330, 4 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADA'S XAVY SCHEME. By Cable.—Prees Association.—Copyright Received 3, 10.45 p.m. Ottawa.. March 3. Mr. N. Whitney, Premier or Ontario, to earnestly consider an influential deputation's request to take action in the Assembly to induce Sir Wilfrid Laurier to add to the naval proposals for two or three Dreadnoughts proposed to be provided in the first instance, in order to cement the formation of fleet units. The deputation ?a similarly approaching all provincial legislatures. TINNED MEAT CONTRACT. Ueccived 3, 10 p.m. ♦ London, March 3. The War Office is inviting tenders, •closing on 4th July, for 412,500 twelveounce tins, and 68,700 twenty-four-ounce tins of preserved meat; also a special contract of 75,500 twelve-ounce , and 02,500 twenty-four-ounce tins, all for delivery in October and November. The latter contract contains a replacement clause. TWO INDUSTRIAL NATIONS. New York, March 2. Surprise, mingled with resentment, has been caused in America owing to the abandonment of the exhibition « f American products at the projected Berlin summer exhibition, which is due to the German Government refusing its official countenance. The refusal is attributed to iear of American industrial rivalry. " GOLD BRICK" SWINDLE. New York, March 2. . Charles Adams, who was arrested at the end of last year in New York on charges of swindling English people of .£50,000 by means of the ''gold brick" fraud, has been sentenced to 4VI; years' imprisonment. BOUNTIES RENEWED.

Ottawa, March 2. The Canadian iron and steel bounties, which expire with the fiscal year, will be renewed. THE GOVERNING FORCE. St. oohn (N.S.), March 2. The Government commission reported against a compulsory provincial eighthours day, declaring that it was calou-1 lated to injure industries owing to the I .competition of other provinces. FOUND OUT. St. Petersburg, March 2. Fifty military officials at Kieff and Odes-sa have iieen arrested on chargas of corruption and extortion. A NEW BROOM. London, March 2. Sir George Eeid states that one glance shows how utterly impossible artt the present offices of the Common' wealth of Australia. "A WHITE AUSTRALIA." ~ London, March 2. Sir Goerge Reid, in the course of an ■interview by the Pall Mall Gazette, stated that the prospect at the present day of Australians settling the Northern Territory was not promising. Maybe Calabrians or Southern Europeans, who were accustomed- to heat, will make their homes there. . AN AWKWARD CONTRETEMPS. New York, March 2. 1 Frances Alda was seize<l with pains while singing in "Othello" at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and .was carried to her hotel in a fainting condition. An operation for appendicitis was performed at 3 o'clock this morning. Miss Alda is now in a critical condition. "EDWARD, THE PEACEMAKER." London, March 2. King Edward, on receiving thp prelates, remarked that the concord of Christendom was unbroken. Rarely in its history had the idea of war seemed more repulsive or the desire for peace more widely cherished throughout the Empire. "THE BLACK HAND." New York, March 5. A bomb prematurely exploded at New York, shattering a house in East Sixtyfifth Street and blowing away some of the miscreant's fingers and a thumb, j The police identified the finger-prints iwith those of Barry, an Italian, and a ■member of the Black Society. Detectives are searching for him. WHEN YOU ARE KEPT AWAKE 'At night with that, troublesome Cough, , remember that it can be speedily cured ihy Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery. Price ,Is Cd and 3s per bottle. Obtainable everywhere.