GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 42, 30 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

HUHE COTTON SCHEME. By Calrte—Press Association—Copyright Received 30, 1.30' a.m. New York, May 29. A scheme is .afoot to establish: warehouses in the United States cotton .belt capable of storing the world's demand for a year, thereby preventing the formation of corners. Leopold Hirseh, John Hayes, and Hammand and Sulby are interested in t'ne scheme. MUTINOUS RESERVISTS SENTENCED. Received May 2.0. 5.5 p.m. Paris, May 28. Fifty - five mutinous reservists at Nimes" were sentenced to a month in the cells and a month's imprisonment; forty to a week's imprisonment; and the four ringleaders were ordered to be interned in a fortress pending their trial. A PECULIAR FATALITY. London, May 27. During the fire escape drill of the employee; of the United Service Club in Haymarket, a canvas chute split and 1 killed a girl, who was precipitated to the 'pavement.

PRUSSIAN FRANCHISE BILL. Berlin, May 27. Owing to the National Liberals voting against the Prussian Franchise Bill, as amended by the Upper Hous'e, thej Chancellor has withdrawn the measure. TRAGEDY IN ROME. Rome, May 27. Moretti, a working man of Genoa, suspecting his wife of intrigue with a married man, shot the latter and his wife with a revolver during dinner. Moretti then returned home and shot his wife while she was asleep and after-' wards committed suicide. ]

A MONSTER VESSEL. London, May 27. The Allan Line is building a 22.000 tonner of 27 accommodating 2300 passengers, for trading from Liverpool to Canada.