GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 334, 9 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL. By Cable.- . Association.—Copyright Received March 8. 10.15 p.m. London, March 8. In the House of Commons Mr liarcourt said he anticipated the Queen Victoria Memorial would be completed within a year. This rate of progress was unexamplol for a work of such magnitude. AN ENTERPRISING PREMIER. Received March 8, 10.15 p.m. Rome, March 8. Mr Moore, the Premier of W'estralia, is visiting Rome. He had an audience Avith King Emanuel. He also interviewed the Premier and the Foreign Minister, and discussed the possibility of a market in Italy for Wcstralian timber, meat and other products. THE SWOPE MURDERS. Received March 8, 10.45 p.m. New York, March 8. Doctor Hyde has been indicted for murdering eight other members of the Swope family, as well as Colonel Swope. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTION. Received March 8. 10.45 p.m. London, March 8. The final recount for Finsbury resulted in a Moderate being elected. A BOMB OUTRAGE. Madrid, Marck 7. A bomb thrown among some priests) in a dining-room where they were at a dinner celebrating the clerical victories in the municipal election at Noceda, Spain, killed two.

PRISON MUTINY. Madrid. March V. Forty prisoners at Cartagena seized and disarmed the sleeping warders, and attempted to escape. They were nred on by troops and subsequently overawed. A REVOLUTIONARY ON TRIAL. St. Petersburg, March 7. Tvmaikowski, for whom bail ivas raised in England and America, is being tried in camera at St. Petersburg foi-l-evolutionary propaganda in many parts of Russia and a speech in Finland advocating the assassination of the Czar. KING EDWARD'S HOSPITAL FUND. London, March 7. The King Edward Hospital Fund receipts in l!'0i), including additions to capital, were .£258,020, and the expenditure i'£-lo3.!M)0. The total distributed in thirteen years amounts to £1,134,I 019. PILFERING CHINESE RAILWAY MATERIAL London, March 7. The Times is publishing a series' of letters from Dr George Morrison, its Pekin correspondent, who is journeying across China to Turkestan. lie states that the management of the Pekin-Han-kau railway have to contend with the pilfering of 60,000 bolts monthly and 10,000 plates yearly. OPERA FOR THE COLONIES. London, March 7. The Daily Express states that Beecham and Quinlan, producers of "Electra" at Covent Garden, propose a season's opera in Australasia, America and; South Africa, They are sending a re- j •presej'.tative to Australia to arrange f or the co-operation of local impressarios. SPURIOUS CURIOS. Berlin, March 7. Experts having pronounced the famous Japanese collection in the Weimar Museum to be largely fraudulent, the Grand Duke has ordered it to be sold bv auction.

THE EARTH'S RADIUS. New York, March 7. The United States Geodetic Survey announces that the equatorial radius of the earth is 0,378,000 metres'. This may be taken as exact within six feet, as it is the result of continuous trianguJation on bases in 41 States. The Survey adds that the earth's crust extends 75 miles, when liquid pressure begins. OLD CHINESE PAINTINGS. LONDON, March 7. The British Mns'eum, for £OOOO, has purchased a remarkable collection, of Chinese paintings from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries. THE LAW'S LONG ARM. London. March T. Two men have been arrested in London on a charge of blowing up a safe in a bank at Liege and stealing ;COOOO worth of bonds. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. London, March 7. There is a recrudescence of influenza in London, where 125 deaths have occurred in the last three weeks, which is 38 more than in the previous three weeks.