GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 4 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

MEAT FOR THE ARMY. By Oable>-Press ' London, August 2. The War Office is inviting tenders by November <) for 412,400 tw eh e ounce tins of mo t, and 68,750 twenty foui ounce tina to he deliveied in January and February. Received August 3, 945 pm London, August i The War Office has contracted with Libby and McNeill, Chicago, foi a mil ,hon pounds of corned meat, at the high est price ever given, FIGHTING THE PLAGUE Received August 3, 9 45 p m fit August 3 Odessa is' fighting 1 the plague and cholera A detachment of expert rat ratchera has been formed Miners «ie Succumbing to cholera in the pits at Sonetz ' IRRIGATION IN ARGENTINA , Received August 3, 945 p m Buenos Ayres, August 3. The irrigation scheme, on the Nequtn river, to be completed by 1913, will permit of the cultivation of 1,250,000 acres iby means of a gianite dam, 1905 feet long, and canals ( CHINESE! BOYCOTT AMERICANS, j Received August 4, 12.15 a.m." j Pekin, August 3 The anti American boycott has been revived in Canton Telegrams have been sent to Chinese abroad, enjoining thear participation i ■ | SHIP BUFFEf ED , Recened August 3, 8,35 pm I ! Sydneyy August 3; I Thbi schooner PeltttaV, 1 bound to Syd' ney, put into Newcastle, owing tp bemp shqrij of provisions, after a storm} pa,s> of foity days She was off New castle a week ago Contrary winds diove her north. i -* THE OEMS , London, August 3. i The membership of the Church of England Men 1 '- Society is 103,000. incW ing 194 branches overseas , r ' AG\MD\INO\ T REFLOATED i London, August 2 The 4gamemnon which went ashore at Cloughey, has been floated, and has' at Belfast. > WARD MEDALS ' , London, August 2 The King has hestowed medals on the heroes of the" Whitehaven mining •disaster, seveial ie\raen, and on his (father's old servants A PUNITIVE EXPFDITION I Berlin, August 2 I As a result of the German expedition in the Cameions, seven chiefs were hanged for romplioitv in the murder of la merchant no-med Brettscbneider ] A CXLIFORNRN HORROR San Diego, August 2 Durham, a discharged fireman at Sii Diego California hecame insane and shot thiee fhemen dead He then beat his wif/ and chill to death and escape' in the darkness \fter he escaped Dii' haln shot him«elf m the head lnflictm* ja serious wound, and he is not expected to recover. TO SETTLE JOHNSON London, August 2 ( The unknown man whom Mcintosh offered to match apajnst Johnson or an\ other bo\er is Miles McLeod He is 27 years old and weighs 250 lbs Corbett Imanages and trains him