GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 100, 5 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE LIBEMAN LOAN. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received August 4, 9.30 p.m. London, August 4. The Times understands that British, American, French and Gcniuui bankers subscribe the Liberian loan m equal pioportions. MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. . London, August 3. Mr. Akers-Douglas, M.P., has joined 'the London directorate of the Australian Mutual Provident Society in' place of Lord Jersey, retired owing to illness. ACTION FOR ROYALTIES. . London, August 3. The Mineral Separation Company is suing the Zinc Corporation for payment of royalties on all material treated at Broken Hill since March 19. RISING IN HONDURAS. Bluefields, August 3. Seventeen rebels have been executed and twenty imprisoned as the outcome of the recent rising in. Honduras. A RICH BEND. , Paris, August 3. A navvy at F6ntenoy-sous-;Bois, a town on the Seine,' has unearthed three vases containing gold coins to the value of £BOOO. It is supposed they were hidden during the Franco-German war. LOCK-OUT IN HOLLAND. The Hague, August 3. There is a complete lock-out in the cotton industry in Holland. Eight thousand hands are affected. A DIFFICULT TASK. Berlin, August 3. American engineers are moving the church tower at Bocholt, in Westphalia, thirty feet. Its weight is 2700 tons. TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN INDIA. London, August 3. The Royal Army Temperance Association states that 42 per cent, of the ■white soldiers in India have taken the pledge. >■ ••. AN ERRING CASHIER. ' New Yorky August 3. Wider, cashier of the Russo-Chinese Bank, who robbed Ms employers/ and their customers of £120,000, pleaded guilty, and will be sentenced on Wednesday. , :,!4*>?s' : ' 'I'WfT ;*Vv , !Wf' i l . : J""*"*~ AUSTRALIAN CADETS AT HOME. London, August 3. The Australian Cadets are at Portsmouth. The Admiralty has arranged for them to be shown over the dockyard. THE HEARTS OF OAK. London, August 3. The Hearts of Oak Buildin? Society admits a debit balance of £157,000. A committee of enquiry has been ordered. MR. GEORGE RETD'S RECEPTION. London, August 3. At Sir Geo. Reid's reception many prominent naval men and Australians were present. Admiral Sir Reginal Henderson and partv, who are visiting Australia at" the request of the Commonwealth, were farewelled.