GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 30 August 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Calcutta, August 28. Subscriptions amounting to £6500 [have been collected in India for the benefit of Indians in the Transvaal who are suffering from the anti-Indian legis- ! lation. SUICIDES IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, August 28. Twenty-six females and eighteen males committed suicide at Odessa in July. FAILURE OF CHAMPAGNE VINTAGE. Paris, August 28. Owing to mildew and brown rot there will be practically no champagne vintage this year. CHINESE POLITICS. London, August 28. Reuters Pekin correspondent states that terms are being arranged for Yuan Shikai's return to office. CAPSIZED IN A SQUALL. London, August 28. The lads on the training ship Exmouth saved nine excursionists who were capsized by a squall on the Thames. CRUISERS FOR THE EAST. London, August 28. The cruiser Newcastle has been ordered to the East to replace the Bedford. CANADIAN TROOPS IN ENGLAND. London, August 28. The Queen's Own Rifles from Canada received an enthusiastic welcome at Liverpool and Aldershot. OLD-AGE PENSIONS. London, August 28. A test case has been arranged to be heard by the House of Lords affecting 30,000 Irish claims to old-age pensions. A REQUEST DECLINED. Washington, August 28. The American Government has declined to undertake the gun-firing experiment to produce rain to extinguish forest fires. CRETAN ELECTIONS. Athens, August 28. The final Tesults of the elections for Attics show that three Cretans who are Ottoman subjects have been returned to the National Assembly besides Venezuelo, the Cretan leader, who is a Greek subject.