GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 92, 27 July 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

MR. HARIUMAN'S MILLIONS. New York, July 25. Inheritance Tax returns disclosed that Mr. Harriman, late railway magnate, was only worth £14,250,000. NEW FISHES. London, July 25. The Norwegian fisheries steamer Miclieal Sars, carrying Mr. John Murray. hydrographer, has been engaged for several months in the exploration of the west coasts of Europe and Africa. Mr. Murray has found 150 new species of fish. '•A SUMMER XI;;HT." London, July 25. The newspapers give favourable notices to Clutsam's opera "A Summer Night," produced at His Majesty's Theatre. HORSE THIEVES LYNCHED. St. Petersburg July 25. Villagers at Viatka lynched sixteen horse thieves, three being killed and thirteen severely mutilated. Cossacks arrested forty-three Villagers. HEAT IN AMERICA. New York, July 25. The temperature in the eastern states is 100 degrees. CATASTROPHE IN ALGERIA. Algiers, July 25. A train at Groha collided with a stage coach. Ten persons were killed and eleven injured. . DEATHS FROM LIGHTNING. Berlin, July 25. There have been 65 deaths from lightning in Germany this summer. ENGLISH CROPS DAMAGED. London, July 25. Rain and want of sun are damaging English crops', especially those of fruit. ART SALES. London, July 25. Art sales in London are producing unusually high ■ prices. The total amount of purchases already exceeds £1,000,000. THE COLONIAL DREADNOUGHTS. London, July 25. Mr. M'Kenna announced that the battleships presented to the nation by the dominions would be named Australia and New Zealand respectively.