GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 93, 28 July 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

PURCHASE OF WESTRALIAN- LANDS. By Cable!— Press Association.—Copyright Loudon, July 26. A Scottish syndicate has purchased 45,000 acres on the Midland 'Railway in.Western Australia at 21s per acre. STORMS IN AUSTRIA. Vienna, July 20. Storms in Tvanslyvania have played havoc with house* and bridges, and thirty pea-son* have been drowned. British' medical congress. London, July 20. Five thousand doctors aye attending the British luedlfctll C'Oiigi'esS in London, i, *•:•'" MR. BRYAN REPUDIATED. Washington, July 26. A Democratic convention in Nebraska Jia9 repudiated Mr, Bryan's leadership.

, INSURRECTION IN CUBA. Washington, July 20. I It is reported that General Minier,! who headed the insurrection at Oaney, in Cuba, has retreated to the hills. Government troops are pursuing him. THE CANADIAN HARVEST. Ottawa, July 26. The Premier of Saskatchewan prophecies that the harvest will be the best on record. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. . Buenos Ayres, July 526. The importation of cattle and pigs from Great Britain has been prohibited on account of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. LITERARY SOCIETY'S STAKES. Brussels, July 26. The police raided rooms occupied by a literary society in the Kursaal, Ostend, and seized £14,000 in the shape of stakes. AN INDICTMENT DISMISSED. New York, July 26. The indictment of Gresser, President of a New York borough, for maladministration, has been dismissed on the ground of insufficient'evidence.

DEATHS FROM HEAT. New York, July 26. There were twenty-six deaths from heat in the United States yesterday, including twelve in New York. A FORGED WILL. London, July 26. Colonel Fredk. Pilcher, R.E., has been sentenced to three years for uttering a forged will purporting to be that of his cousin, Mary Kerfords, of Maidenhead, by which he benefited to the extent of £2.).000. A SYRIAN OUTRAGE. , Constantinople, July 26. I Seventeen persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Unger, a German expert at Haifa, Syria.

VIOLENT STRIKE. Madrid, July 26. The strikers at Bilbao have wrecked much railway rolling stock. MEMORIAL TO KING EDWARD. Berlin, July 20. The Corporation ,of Mardenbad is erecting a medallion in memory of King Edward, who was a frequent visitor there. THE COLOWAN PIRATES. Hong Kong, July 26. The Portuguese captured the leader of the pirates at Colowan.