GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 355, 5 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SIR G. H. REID. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright Received April 4, 11.15 p.m. London, April 4. The Colonial Institute has arranged for a reception to Sir George and Lady Reid on Ist June.

SOUTH AFRICA'S PREMIER. Capetown, April 3. A motion in favor of choosing a Cape Colony Minister as the first Prime Minister of South Africa was withdraws. EMIGRANTS FOR NEW ZEALAND. London, April 3. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, states t'hat the Dominion is securing farmers with capital at their command. A MANSION DESTROYED. London, April 4. Hope End mansion, occupying the site of Mrs. Browning's (poetess) home near Ledbury, has been destroyed by fire. The house party lost their jewels and had to escape in their night attire. The damage is estimated at £50,00 U.

TO KILL INSECT PESTS. Washington, April 3. Fifty-two million ladybirds, weighing a ton, reared at the State iiisect institution at Sacramento, have been sent to the melon fields of California to kill the aphides and other pests.

A TIRING BUSINESS. Washington, April 3. After shaking hands with seven hundred women, the President, finding there were still three hundred more, declined to continue the ceremony.

CANADA'S NAVAL PROGRAMME. Ottawa, April 3. In a supplementary naval programme the Premier proposes to augment the subsidy for construction of large dry docks by a-half.

A BRIGAND'S ATTACK. Constantinople,. April 3. A brigand named Yashnr attacked the Grand Vizier, Ismail Jdakki, and wounded him in the arm. Yashar escaped.