GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 359, 9 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TO KILL FOOD-"CORNERING." By Cable Press Association.—Copyright Received April 8, 8.15 p.m. New York, April 8. Senator Lodge has iiitrouuceu a iiill iiilo tlie Unitea States benate with the object of limiting cold storage for the of maintaining artuieial food ■prices. A conllict has arisen between the two factions.

THE CANADIAN DOCK SCHEME. Received April S, 11.30 p.m. Ottawa, April 8. Sir Robert Perks' Dominion Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company has been incorporated, the Canadian Government guaranteeing 3y a per cent, interest tor thirty-five years on the outlay of four million dollars. THE FRENCH RESERVISTS TROUBLE. Paris, April 7. A draft of bluejackets enabled the Caledonien to sail. ANOTHER BROOKLYN B|Nlv FAILS. New York, April 7, The Borough Bank of Brooklyn, with deposits of over two million dollars, has suspended payment. The assets are stated to be ample to meet the liabilities. GERMAN PILGRIMAGE TO JERUSALEM. Berlin, April 7. Prince and Princess Eitel Friederich are about to pay a visit to Jerusalem. Fifteen hundred German pilgrims will also attend the consecration of Protestant and Catholic Churches on Mounts Olivet and Zion. THEFT OF SHIP'S STORES. London, April 7. Peter Barnet was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Birkenhead for stealing stores from Sir Ernest Skackleton's ship Nimrod. AUSTRALIAN BANK RECONSTRUCTION.

London, April 7. Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady, Judge of the Chancery Division, has approved of the Australian Joint Stock Bank reconstruction scheme. He stated that lie had some hesitation in doing so owing to the absence of any explanation why the creditors were asked to forego half-a-crown in the pound while the shareholders gratuitously received shares in

the new company, but the approval of a large proportion of the creditors has convinced him. I SUICIDE IN PRISON. , London, April 7. 1 Elazar, the Turk who entered the offices of Sasson and Sons, Leadenhallstreet, four or five weeks ago, and shot and wounded his brother, Louis Naff'in. a correspondence clerk, has committed iiiicide by strangulation while awaiting trial at the New Bailey on a charge of murder. ! NEW CANCER TREATMENT. London, April 7. 'Zonic surgery, invented by Dr. O. B. Massey, of the Oncologic Hospital, Chicago, was tried for the first time in Europe at the London Cancer Hospital. The growth was pierced three times bx electricity, zinc needles coated with mercury being used. The growth was i surrounded by a sterilised , zone and | perished. i

WORSTED-SPINNER'S ESTATE. London, April 7. Ths estate of John Foster, worstedspinner, of Bradford, has been sworn at £1,000,000. MENINGITIS IN DENMARK. Copenhagen. April 7. Thi l lartre ironworks are closed down here owiti? to an outbreak of meningitis. Numbers of people are under treatment, and several fatal eases have occurred in tlio Danish nrovinces. . STR H. IT. RETT) HONORED. London, A"ril 7. Sir O. TT. ReH has accented the dnr* of the Carpenters' Comnanv. The ;presentation will" shortly be made, ; \