GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 356, 6 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ANOTHER BALLOONIST KILLED. By Cable—Press Association— Copyrigfci Berlin, April 4. Professor Abegg has been kil.wl while ballooning in Ponierania. GRAIN STOKE BURNT. London, April 4. Dudin's grain warehouse at Rotherhithe, containing 15,Gm> uuarters of grain, has been destroyed by (ire. The damage is estimated at -C40,000. TURKISH NAVAL APPOINTMENT. London, April 4: Roar-Admiral 11. P. Williams succeeds Admiral Gamble as reorganise!', of the Turkish Navy.FINNISH RAILWAYS. London, April 4. The Finnish railways will be administered by Russian officials after 14tli April. . RUSSIA AND POLAND. St. Petersburg, April 4. Acting under instructions from St. Petersburg, the police searched the residences and offices of two hundred officials of the Army Commissariat Department and contractors in Poland, including one hundred and thirty in Warsaw, and confiscated letters and books. CAPITAL APPLICATIONS.

London, April 4. The newspaper Economist states that the quarter's capital applications totalled £99.355,000, compared with £04,238,400 for the corresponding quarter of 1909. Rubber companies' applications represented £6,087,000, and colonial issues £28,907,700, whereof Australia and New Zealand took £4,393,700, and Canada £10.190,000. The United States absorbed £16,070,900, chiefly for railway bonds.

DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. London, April 4. The Rev. Thomas Law, secretary of the Free Church Council, was found dead in the sea at Brighton. He had been suffering from neurasthenia, lately. A LABOR-SAVING DEVICE. London, April 4. Mr. W. T. Stead states that the new Doremus cotton gin is capable of saving £50,000.000 annually in the process of separating cotton from the seed. A European, companv is being formed with a capital of £2,000,000 to exploit the invention. ' AIRSHIPS FOR RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, April 4. The Duma has voted money for the construction of a fleet of airships, and £2500 will be given as prizes for the best designs. WRECK ON ENGLISH COAST. London. April 4. The four-masted shin Kate Thomas, bound from Antwern for Port Talbot, s.mk off Land's End in a collision. Nineteen of those on board were drowned, including the wives of the. captain and the chief officer. A cabin boy was the r only survivor.

ETHERGRAMS. Berlin, April 4. Ethenrrnms were continuously maintained between Berlin and a steamer until the latter arrived at the Cameroon*. in Africa.' A MISSING STEAMER. London. April 4. The Board of Trade enquiry failed to discover the real cause of the disappearance of the shit) Australian, which left Mnnwinillo for Svcmev on 25th Noyemlier, 1008.

SENTENCES ANNULLED. Vienna, April 4. The Croatian Sunreme Court annulled the sentences on fifty-three persons tried at Affram for high treason, on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to justify the charges.