GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 387, 12 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

I _ [ FESTIVAL OF EMPIRE POSTPONED. j By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. J London, May 10. ; The Festival Pageant of Empire has : been .postponed till 1.911. i U.S. RAILROADS. New York, May 10. The House of Representatives at Washington, by '2OO votes bo 120, passed the Government Railroad Bill, witu a Democrat amendment .providing for the valuation of railroads iby the Supreme Court. A MATTER OF SALARIES. Capetown, May 10. The matter of the salaries of the members of the Transvaal Association has been decided. The constitution allows the executive some latitude, aad the application for a rule nisi has no locus standi. Hence the rule was discharged. PROTECTION OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. London, May 10. The American Consul at Tripoli obtained the degradation of two policemen, an official apology, and the punishment of the ringleaders of a mob which assaulted an American general's son while painting in the centre of the town. REFLOATING A LINER. London, May 10. Continued efforts are being made to refloat the Atlantic transport liner Minnehaha, which ran on the rocks at the Scilly Islands.

FETE OF JEANE D'ARC. Paris, May 10. The Archbishop of Paris rMjueuts Catholics to abstain from beflagging their windows on the occasion of the fete of Jeanne d'Arc. MURDEROUS BURGLARS. New York, May 10. Burglars entered the house of Dr. Cannon, a well-known physician, and were disturbed while ransacking the nlace. They fired at the aged housekeeper with a revolver, then \beat her to death. A similar fate befe! a Hin- 1 doo butler. , i