GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 30 July 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BRANDING STRIKE BREAKERS. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright, London, Juiy i! 8. A deputation to tlie Board of Trade asserted that t'uu Shipping Federation branded the strike breakers with indiarubber stamps belore employing them; also that ten thousand men were so marked at Antwerp. CORRUPT' PENSIONS. St. Petersburg, July 23. Colonel Akimoii, head oi a St. Petersburg department, and seven other oi lictais have been arrested ior corruption, Ten million sterling annually passed tkrougti l\Kiiuoii s Hands. • A CANADIAN CENTENARY. London, July 28. Tlie Times' Toronto correspondent says that King George and the Presidents of Fiance and tlie United States will be invited to the centenary celebrations of peace between Canada and the United States.

I A LONG SWIM. Rome, July 28. Cattaneo, a well-known swimmer, beat aJil records, covering 36% miles down the Tiber. He was swimming from 9 o'clock, in the morning till 8 at night THE WARATAH ENQUIRY. London, July 28. Mr. Churchill, in reply to a question n the House of Commons, stated that the bulk of evidence relating to the loss of the Waratah was collected, but the remainder must be obtained before the enquiry was held. CANADIAN CROPS SAVED. London, July 28. Reuters correspondent wires that the crops in Alberta and Manitoba will be saved, notwithstanding the drought. MRS. FARRINGTON'S DEATH. 1 London, July 28. The verdict in Mrs. Farrington's case was death by misadventure. TEACHING THE GERMAN YOUNG. [ Berlin, July <2B. German school teachers numbering 328 from various parts of the Empire have been shown over the dockyards at Kiel. THE CUBAN INSURRECTION. Havana, July 28. The* Rural Guards captured General) Minier, leader of the Cuban insunrec-' tion,,and several of his followers, ihe insurrection has now been quelled. GIFT OF AN OBSERVATORY. Paris, July 28. The French Assembly of Science nas accepted tlie gift of Quito Observatory, n South America. A FORGER RELEASED. London, July 28. The Morning Leader states that Philip Bernstein, forger, sentences to 1 twenty years' imprisonment in 19Q2, liasj been released.

HURR.IOANE CAUSES LO t SS OF LIFE. I St. Petersburg, July 28. j A 'hurricane in Bessarabia killed a man, two women, two children, and many cattle. HAIRBOR CANAL DEEPENED. 'St. Petersburg, July 28. The harbor canal has been to 26 feet for warships. j A FINANCIER GAOLED. ! Paris, Juily 28. j Rochetti, a Parisian financier, has! been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for embezzlement and infringement of the company law. several of tyis associates received minor punishments. , . ,7/