GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 85, 19 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH DELEGATION TO FRANCE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received July li>, 1.5 a.m. London, July lb. Lord Northampton, head of a special mission, including Admiral Fanshawe, has arrived in Paris for the purpose of announcing King George's accession. THE UNION BANK. ■London, July 17. The Union Bank's report shows deposits £21,349,025, cash investments £7,000,682, balance remittances £4,427,750, bills £14,356,600. MINERS' STRIKE. Madrid, July 17. Fifteen thousand miners have struck at Bilba*. MURDER IN ITALY. Rome, July 17. Professor Feore and his sister were murdered after a struggle in a lonely country house in the vicinity of Turin. The murderers escaped. REORGANISING THE CHINESE ARMY. Pekin, July 17. China is asking German officers to reorganise her army. THE PIRAEUS INCIDENT. Athens, July 17. Greece has paid Roumania an indemnity of £ BOO for the Piraeus incident. CRETE AND THE POWERS. Athens, July 17. The withdrawal has begun of additional warships recently despatched by the Powers to Crete. STRANDED ON JAPAN'S COAST. London, July 17. The Mongolia, an American steamer which is stranded on the coast of Japan, lies on a sandy bottom, and is expected to be refloated. AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHTS. Vienna. July 17. Tt is stated here that the first Axis, trian Dreadnought will bo ready for ser- I vice in the autumn of 1013. PRESENTATION TO THE PERICLES' CAPTAIN. London, July 17. The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society presented Captain Simpson with a selfrecording aneroid in recognition or his courage when the Pericles was lost. CYCLING RACE. London, July 17. Bishop won the 24 hours' cycling race in the Stadium, coverina; 501 miles Rfif) yards. CONSUMPTIVE SANATORIUM. London, July 17. An anonymous gift of £25.000 has been made to Queen Alexandra's Sanatorium at Davos Platz. THE QUEEN AS AN ARTTST. London, July 17. I The Queen has been elected an honorary member of the Royal British and Colonial Society of Artists.