GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 344, 21 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COURT OF APPEAL CASES. By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright Received March 20, 5 p.m. London, Marcn 20. New Zealand appeals, Hamilton Gas' Company versus Parker, was allowed with costs, and in the case Hussey versus Miles, leave for appeal in forma pauperis was refused. POLITICAL OPERATIONS. London, March 18. The Women's Social Political Union collected £31,686 during the past year and held 20,000 meetings. Two hundred and ninety-four women were arrested and 163 imprisoned, and of 110 hunger-strikers 36 were forcibly fed. OPPRESSION IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, March 18. The Senate rejected the appeal of six school boys and girls, aged sixteen and seventeen years, belonging to the town of Potchneresi and sent the whole of them into exile in Siberia for taking part in the organisation of a revolutionary association in 1907. THE HOPE DIAMOND. New York, March 18. The Herald's Singapore correspondent states that a diver explored the wreck of the French steamer Seyne, expecting to find the famous Hope diamond, which it was believed that Air. Nabib, a diamond merchant, who was drowned, •had on board with him. The diver recovered the ship's safe, but it did not contain the diamond.

ABOUT A TRADE-MARK. London, March 18. The House of Lords Appeal Committee has decided that the goodwill of the Chartreuse liqueur factory did not ■pass to a French judicial liquidator, and therefore the monks now settled in England are entitled to the old trade-marks and the liqueur manufactured by the .French Government must bear a different mark. EDUCATING THE DALAI LAMA. Calcutta, March 18. The Dalai Lama has been paving visits to local factories, the Zoological Gardens, and to four bioscope exhibitions. He is going to Darjeeling shortly. A VALUABLE GIFT. London, March 18. Sir Geo. Reid has accepted Mr. D. E. Alvess' gift to the Commonwealth of Gri'bble's "Our Golden Argosies," which was exhibited in the Royal Academy last year. The picture will possibly be hung in the Commonwealth House of Parliament. SEEING THE " WHITE CTTY." London, March 18. Hundreds of .Japanese are coming to the "White City" exhibition in London. The trip, including fates and hotel expenses in London for three weeks, will only cost £IOO a head.