GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 45, 2 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright Received June 1, 0.30 a.m. Berlin, June 1. The Italian Foreign Minister is visiting Berlin. A German communique states that the Triple Alliance is more firmly founded than ever. THE KAISER. Berlin, May 31. The Kaiser is progressing satisfactorily. AUSTRALIA'S NAVY. London, May 31. The Australian warship Parramatta had a successful preliminary run under steam. The cost of the Commonwealth battleship cruiser will .be about £1,800,000, the hull costing £858,000, the guns £124,928, and the torpedo tubes and other fittings £300,000, while the propelling machinery will run into half a million.

■NON-UNIONISTS ASSAULTED. London, May 31. Strikers at the Kinneil woodyard, at Bo'ness, on the Firth of Forth, overcame the police and entered the yard and assaulted non-unionists, fifty of whom were seriously injured. HARROW HEADMASTERSHIP. London, May 31. The Rev. Lionel Ford, headmaster of Repton, has been appointed to the headmastership of Harrow, in succession to the Rev. Prebendary Wood, D.D. OPENING GREAT TIN MINES. London, May 31. The Imperial Government is considering the construction of 120 miles of railway to open great tin fields in the province of Banchi, Northern Nigeria, wherein three millions of capital has been invested. WEST AUSTRALIAN BANQUET. London, May 3'l. Sir George Reid presided at the West Australian banquet, hold at the Troeadero. There were 200 present, including the Duke of Bedford, the AgentsGeneral, the Hon. F. H .Piess'e, bankers, merchants, shipowners and financiers. Lord Goschen proposed the toast of the Empire, and Mr. M. F. Moss replied. Sir G. H. Reid proposed the health of the Hon. N. J. Moore and "West Australia."