GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 357, 7 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE GERMAN NAVY LEAGUE. By Onble.—Prwss Association.—Copyright Received April 0, 9.50 p.m. Berlin, April 6. The German Navy League now has a membership of 1,031,339. The funds' have increased during 1909 by £219,940, totalling £1,079,190.

GOVERNMENT LABOUR BUREAUX. Received April G, 9.20 p.m. Ottawa, April 6. The Government of Quebec is establishing labour bureaux in the principal cities, which will be free to those seeking work. The step is due to the extortions of private agencies.

EVADING INQUIRY. Washington, April 8. Senator Conger, against whom allegations of bribery were recently brought, has resigned his position as Senator in New York, thus forestalling an into his conduct.

FEDERAL COURT AFLOAT. Washington, April 6. The Federal Court of Alaska is engaged in a 2000: mile cruise aboard a revenue cutter, trying and sentencing prisoners' and stowing them on board until the end of the cruise. The necessity of. this proceeding arises from the prevalence of lawlessness amongst the salmon canneries of the islands "and the coa9t.

ALLEGED JAPANESE SPIES. Manila, April 5. Two Japanese recently arrested as spies have been deported to Formosa. DEATHS FROM STARVATION. London, April 6. One hundred and twenty-five persons' died of starvation in England and Wales in 1908, including 52 in London.

NEW ZEALAND BUTTER WANTED. Berlin, April 5. The German butter boycotters strongly urged the removal of the prohibition on the importation of Australian and New Zealand butter.

STOAT NEST RAILWAY ACCIDENT. London, April S. The official report on the Stoat Nest railway accident.. is to the effect that the disaster was caused by a wheel sliding on the axle. The Government Inspector urges severe teats on railwayg for gripping wheels to axles.

SUSPENSION OF AMERICAN BANK. •New York, April 6. The Union Bank of Brooklyn, with a capital of a million dollars' and a surplus of 689,000 dollars, with deposits totalling five and a half million dollars, has suspended payment.

N.Z. SHIPPING COMPANY. London, April 5. The New Zealand Shipping Company has declared an interim bonus of five shillings per share LE BLON'S FUNERAL. Paris, April S. There was an imposing demonstration at San Sebastian while the body of Le Rlon, who wa.s killed whilst mohoplaning, was taken t.o the station on the way to Paris. The streets were lined with troops, and the shops' were closed. Thousands followed the coffin.

FRENCH DREADNOUGHTS. Paris, April 5. The French Chamber*/, by 428 to 131, voted the laying down of two Dre«dnoughts in August, to bs completed W 1913. WELL PAID WORK. London, April 5. In the course of a lawsuit against Ruth Ft. Denis, a dancer. sh» stated she received £270 a week for a London engagement. LIBEL SUIT DROPPED. London, April 5. Lord Jersey, who k< in bad nealth. has dropped 'his libel action against Mr Llewellyn Williams, M.P. The action tivom out of allegations road* against Lord Jersey, as a landlord at Swansea.