GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 89, 23 July 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WESLEYAN PRESIDENCY. By Gable—Press Association.—Copyright Received July 23, 12.50 a.m. London, July 23. The Wesleyan Conference, sitting <it Cardiff, elected the Rev. Henry Haigh, of Newcastle, president for 1911.

CANADIAN NAVY. Received July 23,. 12.30 a.m. . ■Ottawa, July 23.

Canada is enquiring for British tenders for the construction of four warships of the improved Bristol class, and six destroyers.

INFECTED WITH ASIATIC CHOLERA. ■Received July 22, 10.25 p.m. ■St. Petersburg, July 22. The city is officially declared to be infected with Asiatic cholera.

TOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Received July 23, 12.50 a.m. London, July 22.

In the House of Commons sir E. Carrington. in reply to Mr. Shuttleworth, says that eight animals on a mrui in Kirkby Malzeand, Yorkshire, were suffering' from foot and mount disease.. The movement of all the animals over the wide surrounding area was prohibited. The iocal authorities throughout Britain were warned that foot and mouth disease had reappeared in England. The Board of Agriculture's chief veterinary officer is proceeding to Yorkshire to' advise as to what steps are necessary to cope with the disease.

MURDER AN ACCIDENT. Received July 22, 10.20 p.m. London, July 22.

1 The Court of Appeal upheld the County Court's decision that the killing of Nisbit was an accident within the meaning of the Compensation Act. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Berlin, July El. Twelve workmen were killed by lightning at Kollitwitz in Silesia. RIO DE JANIERO HARBOR. Rio De Janiero, July 21. The President of Brazil has formally opened the new harbor here, which can now accommodate the largest vessels. SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLICS' ARMY. Berlin, July 21. Argentina and Brazil have each or'l.pre.d, in Germany, 200,000 Mauser rifles. A MURDER CHARGE. London, July 21. Broome, charged with suffocating Mrs. Wilson, has been remanded. He denies that he committed the murder. STOCKBROKER'S SUICIDE. London, July 21. j The Rev. Athelstone Cornforth, whoi committed suicide in the Central Park,] New York, recently had traded in Lon-1 don as a stockbroker, and this week was 1 to have been made bankrupt by his eral-. itorsi

BILLS OF EXCHANGE. London. July 21. The IT-igne Conference b"s agreed to uniform law for the regulation of bills of exeharige.