GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 47, 4 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FRENCH PROPORTIONATE REPRESENTATION. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright Received June 3, 10.30 (p.m. .Paris, June 3. Two liuradred French Deputies met and formed a Parliamentary group which advocates proportional representation. One hundred others 'Signified their approval. SCOTCH AGRICULTURISTS TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. London, June 2. A party of Scotch agriculturists ts to visit Australia, including Sir Carlaw Martin, Sir John Sinclair, Doctor Shi erra Gibb, and Messrs. R, B. Grey, Bar ber, Prain, Dunlop, Morrison and Henderson. WRECK OF THE SWIANH'ILDA. .London, June 2. Fourteen were drowned in the wreck of the barque Swanhilda oft' Terra del Fuega. NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES. London, June 2. The arbitration case over the Newfoundland fisheries' opens at the Hague on Monday. The Court will be comprised of Professor Lammasch (president), Doctors Drago (Argentine), Lohmann (Netherlands), Judge Gray (United States), and Mr. Fitzpatriek (Canada) .

THE COLONIAL OFFICE. London, June 2. The first annual report of the Dominions Department of the Colonial Office lias been issued. It gives u survey of the year's doings rn the dominions'. THE ILL-FATED PLUVOISE. Paris, June 2. The high seas having abated, one of the Pluvoise's hatches has been found to be half open, from .which it is inferred that the sailors tried to escape. RUSSIAN GIRL RUNS AMOK. St. Petersburg, June 2. A p.easant girl of seventeen, at Zamharova, near Tomak, in Siberia, enraged at her uncle taunting .her with flightmess', killed her 12-year-old brother with an axe, broke 'her mother's spine and cut off her arms, and grievously wounded her uncle. She was finally arrested while engaged in an assault on her aunt. COMMANDER PEARY. London, June 2. King George gave an audience to Com mander Peary for half an hour.