GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 1 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BRANDING WORKERS. By Cable.— Press Association.— Copyright Received' July 31, 5.5 p.m. London, July 31. The Shipping Federation states that a doctor at Antwerp stamped men on the wrist after passing thenj, to prevent crimps substituting unfit men.

OUTBREAK OP GLANDERS. Received. July 31, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, July 30. An outbreak of glanders among the horses of the cavalry regiments has occurred. There is danger of the men contracting it. This has caused the Empeior to abandon the grand: army manoeuvres. ' CHINESE COLONISATION. ■Received July 31, 5.5 p.m. Peking, July 30. China is extending the colonisation oi Manchuria and Mongolia, chiefly with settlers from the southern provinces. PLAGUE IN EGYPT. Received July 31, 5.5 p.m., Cairo, July 30. Two cases of plague are reported. COMMERCIAL AUTOCRAT DEPOSED. Received July 31, 5.5 p.m. New York, July 30. George Westingihouse, for twenty-five years the autocratic head of the Westinghouse Compiany, has been deposed hy the directors from the presidency after prolonged, friction. SAFEGUARDING NATIONAL CURRENCY. Received July 31, 5.5 p.m. New York, July 30. Twenty-.seven national banks have founded a national currency association' at New York under the terms of the emergency currency law. MAIL TRAIN ON FIRE. Received July 31, 5.5 p.m. London, July 30. A French train took fire between Crauil and Pont Saint Maxence, and 200 bags of mails were destroyed.

FRENCH CROPS RUINED. Paris, July 29. The Matin estimates that rain has destroyed one-fifth of the French crops, , and that the loss is two milliards of francsi ( £80,000,000). HOLLAND'S TARIFF. Amsterdam, July 20. The Government having a tariff reform majority in both Houses, is revising the revenue, and partly to enable it to retaliate on other countries. It rs estimated that the reform will yield nearly £1,000,000. AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS. Paris, July 29. Princess Hassan Rassem Bey, a member of the Khedive's family, fell while bicycling at Evian-les-Bains. An automobile caught her dress and dragged her some distance. Her ribs were broken, and she sustained other injuries.

THE BRIG OF AYE. London, July 29. j Lord Rosebery performed the ceremony of reopening the old Brig of Ayr, which has been restored at a cost of £IO,OOO. j i A PERUVIAN DERELICT. London, July 29. The Huallaga, a Peruvian ship abandoned at sea, is still drifting, and it is hoped to tow her into port. | ■ROBBERY FROM AN EXPRESS TRAIN'. Paris, July 29.

Six bass of letters and thirteen registered packets, including many bonds payable to bearer, were stolen from the Paris-Toulon express.