GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 71, 2 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE GERMAN NAVY.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Bprlin, June 30. The battleship Oldenburg has been launched at Danzig.

Received July l.i 10.30 v.w. Berlin,' July 1. The new battleship Oldenburg is 492 feet long, 28% feet in draught, 20,000 tonnage, 25,000 horse-power, and its speed is 21 knots, ft'

PORT ARTHUR. Received July ll 10.30 d.hi. fPekin, July 1. Port Arthur has been' opened to foreign shipping. . |

A CHILIAN! DRi

jADNOUGHT. iondon, June 30,

Armstrong's firm is building a Dreadnought for Chili of 32J000 tons at a cost of £3,000,000. It wijll be the first of this size afloat.

SIR GEORGE REte CHEERED.

London, June 30.

At the close of the National Service League banquet there was an unusual feature. Lord Roberts,called for three oheers for the High Commissioner of Australia, which were warmly given by the audience of five hundred.

•MINING RIOTERS SENTENCED. London, June 30. Judge Grantham, at Durham Assizes, sentenced Fallon to five years and eight others to from three to eighteen months' penal servitude for rioting during a miners' strike at-Hun'en, when a club house worth £ 10,000. vra* burned.

MR. ROOSEVELT. Washington, June 30. Mr. Roosevelt has written earnestly supporting Governor Hughes' Direct Primary Bill.

AWARD TO AX. AUCKLANDEK. London, June 30. John H. Beamish, of Auckland, has ■been awarded a diploma of honor for prismatic roofing shown at the New Zealand court of the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. !

THE ACCESSION OATH. Ottawa, June 30,

Eighty thousand Orangemen in Canada are petitioning Mr. Asquith against a modification' of the accession oath, but the majority of Canadians strongly approve the change.

MISSING STEAMER 'SAFE. London, June 30. The steamer Quilqiie, believed to he lost, has arrived"at Talcahuano.

EMPIRE WIRELESS SERVICE,

London. June 30.

The Colonial Office is studying Marconi's scheme of wireless communication for .the whole Empire.

RUSSIAN CONVICTS ESCAPE. iSt. Petersburg, June 30. Eight convicts at Kherson manacled a warder and escaned. They were pursued, and a fight followed in which seven convicts and one warier were killed.

WHISKY FIRM SHUTTING UP. London. June 30,

Owing to fche effect of the increased whiskv fluty the Kijiahan Company, of Dublin, has decided to wind up.