GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 38, 25 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TARIFF BOARD EXPENSES. By Cable—Press Received 24, 11.30 p.m. ■New York, May 24. The House of Representatives has rejected an appropriation of a quarter of a million dollars to pay the expenses of the Tariff Board.. NEW GERMAN INVINCIBLE. Received 24, 11.30 p.m. Berlin, May 24. The first German Invincible, the Vondertann, is completed. A CURRIE SCHOLARSHIP. Received 24, 10.10 p.m. London, May 24. The daughter of the later Sir Donald Currie, the ship-owner, presented sfSo.OoO to the University of Capetown for the construction of «. hall as a permanent memorial to the late Sir Donald Currie. A sum of £l5O per annum is devoted to the foundation of a Currie (Scholarship. GERMAN BUILDING TRADE, Received May 24, 9.30 p.m. Berlin, May 24. The masters and men in the German building trades have accepted the Gov-, ernment's medium. A CYCLIST'S ACCIDENT. London, May 23. Allan Woodman's leg had to be amputated in' consequence of his accident when training for a motor cycle race in the Isle of Man, and his condition is serious. BAPTIST COLONIAL SOCIETY. London, May 23. Collections will ,be made in all Baptist churches of the Empire on behalf of the Baptist Colonial Society. A FATHER'S HEROISM. Paris, May 23. Alfred Nutt, a publisher, of London,, was driving with his deaf and dumb, son on the banks' of the Seine when the horses bolted. The son was thrown into the river, and the father dived to his rescue, and was caught by a' strong current and drowned, but the son was saved. I

CANADIAN TRADE. Ottawa, May 23. ■Canada's total trade for April was 10,985,000 dollars above tliat of April 1909. GENERAL FRENCH IN CANADA. London, May 23. General Etrench reviewed 3200 win j formed cadets) and a hundred girl rvipik' at Toronto. The latter decorated the! monuments around Parliament Wil-l-j ing. General French was emphatic in his 'praises of the display, which he said he would have liked everybody in the! Motherland to 'have seen. j CANADIAN CARGK) FOR NEW ) ZEALAND. ' I Ottawa. May 23. j The Rakaia sailed from Montreal iot New Zealand and Australia with a> cargo of 5000 to:ft, including ipaper and I agricultural machinery. '