GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 101, 6 August 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A CO-OPERATIVE BANK. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, August 4. Lord Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at the meeting of the Farmers' Union, ( announced that he intended to submit to his colleagues, a scheme for a co-opera-tive bank. Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd- , George approved the scheme.

A WOMAN SMOKER. New York, August 4. Christian Endeavour Societies have petitioned Mrs. Longworth, Mr. Roosevelt's daughter Alice, to abandon smoking cigarettes.

HIGH COURT JUDGES. London, August 4. Mr. Horace Avory, .a well-known King's Counsel, and Mr. Thomas H. Berridge, ex M.P., have been created High Court Judges.

A BANKER'S ESTATE. London, August 4. The estate of Hugh Colin Smith, Former manager of the Bank of England, has been sworn at £360,311. '

FARM COLbNIES FOR EMIGRANTS. * London, August 4. Bethnal Green Distress Committee approved of farm colonies for intending emigrants.

SIR GEORGE REED'S DOINGS. London, August 4. Sir George Reid -will spend his holidays in Scotland, and then •will go to the Brusselk conference on technical education, and subsequently to the conference on unemployment in Paris.

BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE. London, August 4. (Returns show that the Government has awarded 873 positions in the civil service without examination to officers drawing £239,775 annually since .1900.