GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 8 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN .PILGRIMS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received June 7, 10.10 p.m. j Rome, June 7. 1 The Pope accorded a markedly kind reception to German pilgrims, and praised the work of the Germans at Jerusalem under the Kaiser's auspices. , HERR DERXBURG. Received June 7. 10.10 p.m. Berlin, June 7. Herr Dernburg, German Colonial Minister, is starting on a tour of Japan and the Far East. OLYMPIA .HORSE SHOW. Received June 7, 10.10 p.m. London. June 7. The horse show was opened at Olympia and. was a .picturesque spectacle, despite the mourning for King Edward. Many foreign officers were present, and there was a large society attendance. THE WARATAH ENQUIRY. Received June 7, 10 p.m. London, June 7. It will be some weeks before the main inquiry in regard to the Waratah opens. DISLODGING THE SUGAR TRUST. New York, June 6. Mr. J. H.# Wickersham, American At-torney-General, is initiating an action to dissolve the Sugar Trust. SHIPPING COMPANY ABSORPTION. London, June 0. It is understood that the Royal Mail ■Steam Ship Company is purchasing the whole of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's share capital at par. JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPLORERS. New York, June 6. The New York Herald's l 7 okohama correspondent states that Lieut. Shirafe, a Japanese, is organising an expedition which embarks in August on a 150-ton schooner for King Edward Land and Evans Bay towards the South Pole. The party will take 150 sleighing Manchurian ponies. FOREST RESERVATION. Ottawa, June 0. The Canadian Government has ordered the reservation, with a view to forest reproduction of 14,400 square miles, being a strip from ten to fifty miles in width along the eastern slope of the Rockies. EXPLOSION ON A WARSHIP. London, June 6. By an explosion in a coal bunker of the Victorious at the Nore, four stokers' received severe burns. I TRAINED RABBITS. j London, June (i. The Admiralty has given a trial order for 250.0001b5. of tinned rabbits to a country freezing company in New South Wales. BLUEJACKETS HONORED. London, June 6. The King and Queen received Che, bluejackets who drew the gun carriage carrying King Edward's coffin to Winsor, at Marlborough House, and presented the officers with the fourth-class Victorian Order and the men with the Victorian medal. The company then formed an open square, and the King, after making a short speech, presented the gun carriage to the Navy. Queen Alexandra also reviewed the bluejackets at Birmingham Palace. SIR GEORGE REID. London, June (5. Sir George Reid has taken Sir H. Heaton's house in Eaton Snuare, Sir IT. Heaton is taking a long voyage. QUELLING OF THE HEREROS. Berlin, June fi. Herr Dernburg has resigned owing to the Reichstag's decision to compel diamond companies to contribute to the cost of the quelling of the Hereros.