GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 354, 4 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE CZAR AT A CONCERT. By Cable.—Prosa Association.—CVpy-i^i. Received April o, ■") p.m. St. Petersburg. April '2. The Czar for the first lime ior sever;;! years attended a concert at St. l'elcrburjj. A thousand bandsmen played the national anthem several times. There was much enthusiasm.

SEW ZEALAND U)AN. Received April 3, ."> p.m. London, April li. The New Zealand loan is quoted at five shillings premium.

SOCIALIST EDITOR IMPRISONED. Received April 3, 5 p.m. Berlin, April 2. Richard Earth, editor of the Socialist paper "Voiwarts'," has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Berlin for inciting Socialists to disobey the police. The presidents of the Socialists' League refused to allow an open air demonstration.

EMIGRANTS FOR CANADA. London, AprtJ l. Thirty thousand emigrants will leave England this month for Canada in twenty-three steam ships. The- Canadian Pacific railway officials,' state that many settlers are going to their ready-made farms taking £2OO apiece with them.

A TRAIN BLOWN OVER. Vienna, April 1. A gale at Trieste precipitated a train over an embankment, fonr people being killed and eighteen injured. NATIONAL PEACE SCOUTS. London, April 1. Sir Francis Vane is inaugurating a body of National Peace Scouts, to be affiliated to the British Boy Scouts. The object is.' to discourage militarism.

SUICIDE EPIDEMIC. St. Petersburg, April 1. Nine hundred and thirty-two males and GOO females committed suicide in this city during 1900, including 58 boys and 77 girls between the ages of eleven and seventeen years.

THE HOPE DIAMOND. Paris', April 1. A diver has recovered many of Habib's diamonds from the wreck of, La Seyne. It is now discovered that Habib sold ,the famous Hope diamond, which was supposed to be lost in the wreck, for £IO,OOO to a Parisian merchant before he was drowned.

CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH. London, April 1. The dentists of Preston offered to attend all the children's teeth at the rate of fourpence per head per annum, but the Town Council refus'ed the offer.

A DECREASING DRINK BILL. London. April 1. The United Kingdom Alliance estimates that in 1009 £155,1«2,485 was expended on alcohol. Increased taxation added five millions to the cost, therefore the decrease in the consumption for the year was equivalent to £11,000,000.