GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 79, 12 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

STEAMSHIP ENTERPRIIE. , By Cable.—Press Received July 11,41.20 p.m. London, July 11. The Royal Mail Steamship Company is issuing 1250 debentures, carrying 5 per centum at par in connection with the scheme for the absorption of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company.

BIG CANADIAN COMBINE. Received July 11, 11.20 p.m. Ottawa, July 11. The consolidation of-the five principal steel finishing plants in the Dominion with the Iron and Steel Company of Canada is completed.

AN AUSTRALIAN CRITIC. ■ Received July 12, 12.5 a.m. London, July 11. Sir George Reid, speaking in support of the Lifeboat Fund, at Leeds,, deprecated looking askance at the progress of other nations, and urged the need for modernising'education, teaching the young some of the few things needed in the battle of life. He referred to Australia's efforts in helping to maintain the Empire's supremacy.

AN INCIDENT CLOSED. Received July 11, 7.5 p.m. Athens, July 11. The harbormaster at Piraeus nas apologised and handed over the deserter to the captain of the steamer Imperatui Traian. The incident is tlosed. POLITICS IN CANADA. Received July 11, 7.5 p.m. Ottawa, July 11. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier, opened the political campaign at Port Arthur, Ontario, and then proceeded to Winnipeg. A NEW ZEALAND STEAMER. London, July 10. The steamer Rotorua, for the New Zealand Shipping Company, has been launched at Dumbarton. DODGING THE DUTY. Berlin, July 10. The Strasburg Post -says that several truekloads of French champagne were imported into Germany for the Imperial •household before the increased duty came into operation on 30th June. X-RAYS FATALITY. London. July 10. Mr. Harry W. Cox, electrician, one of the pioneers of X-ray investigations, has died from the results of accidentally placing a tube emanating rays near his face twelve years ago.

ALPINE ACCIDENT. Berne, July 10. Details of an alpine disaster at Scheidegg, on the Jungfrau, show that two German tourists and five guides aricl porters perished. TRAITORS PUNISHED. Berlin, July 10. A woman has been sentenced to six years' penal servitude at Leipsic, and three men given sentences of -from two to four years, for selling to France i.-.e secrets of military telephones in AlsaceLoraine and portions of the new shrapnel shell. CIVIL LIST PENSIONS. London, July 10. Among the new civil list pensions is Thomas Bryant, surgeon, £IOO for services in the advancement of surgery; Richard Whiteina, £IOO in consideration of the literary merits of his writings; the widow of Harry Seeley, geologist, £7O; and Lady Manson, £IOO. These ladies are pensioned on account of their late husbands' services.