GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 94, 29 July 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW TYPE OF STEAMER. j «?y Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright I Hamburg, July 27. • .. The Hamburg-American line has order-1 ed a 9000-ton motor-driven steamer. ' PIRATES CAPTURED. Pekin, July 27. The Portuguese captured fourteen additional pirates at Colo-wan and liberated, eight women and children. I AN INDIAN APPOINTMENT. i Calcutta, July 27'. I William Henry Clark, one of the prin- j cipal clerks of the Board of Trade, has been appointed a member of commerce on the Viceroy's Executive Council in India. •ENCROACHING ON MONTENEGRO. St. Petersburg, July 27. Anxiety is felt here owing to the alleged revival of the Austro-Hungarian demand for a strip of Montenegro com-, manding the road to Cettigne. | PRINCE OF WALES. •London, July 27. , The Prince of Wales will not accept invitation to become president of any societies until he has attained his majority. ROUMANIAN CROPS. Bucharest, July 27. The Roumanian crops are in splendid condition. WAREHOUSE DESTROYED. Paris, July 27. A warehouse belonging to the Chamber of Commerce, Marseilles, was burned and several million francs worth of damage done. BATHS COLLAPSE. Constantinople, July 27., The ladies' baths at Kavala, a port on the Aegean Sea, collapsed and twentyfive persons were killed and many seriously injured. STEAMER BURNED. iLondon, July 27. The Peruvian steamer Hullago was burned at sea and three of the crew drowned. STATUE CF KING EDWARD TO BE,! ERECTED IN PARIS. Paris, July 27. The municipality of Paris intends to) name a new street, Rue Edouard V 11.,; and to erect an equestrian statue of the j late King therein. EMIGRATION, London, July 27. . The Morning Post appeals for facilities for emigration within the Empire, and for a discussion on the subject at the Imperial Conference. i