GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 2 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

ROOSEVELT RAMPANT. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received September 1, 10.30 p.m. New York, August :;l. Colonel Roosevelt, in a drai j,tic speech on the battlefield of Osawa. om\ (where John Brown fought), dei.ared that the Missouri raiders demanded a wide increase of the power of National government. The issue of the day was the struggle of the free man to gain another hold on self government as against special interests twisting the free government machinery to defeat the popular will.

AMALGAMATION DROPPED. Received September I, 10.30 p.m. London, September 1. The proposed amalgamation of Parr's Lancashire and Yorkshire banks has been dropped. GLACIER OR SUBMERGENCE. Received September 1, 10.30 p.m. London, September 1. The first British Association meeting has been opened at Sheffield. Professor Bonney, the president, in discussing the formation of the Alps' valleys, declared that both the glacier and submergence hypotheses were still on their trial. He was personally of opinion that the difficulties in the way of acceptance of the former were the more serious. Meanwhile work was steadily going on in separating facts from fancies.

INTERNATIONAL QUESTION SETTLED. Received September 1, 10.40 p.m. London, September 1. Britain, Germany and Belgium have settled the details of the boundaries of the Lake district in East Africa. , ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. London, August 31. Cambridge University Press is assuming the copyright and issuing an eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in twenty-eight volumes, in December. THE GREEK BOYCOTT. Constantinople, August 31. The anti-Greek boycott has been renewed, and is spreading. VICTORIAN DELEGATES. London, August 31. Victorians here gave a banquet to the delegates, Messrs. Mackenzie anil Meed, who have been securing emigrants, at the Gaiety Restaurant, Loard Goschen presiding. The quests included one hundred and fifty leading merchants, commercial and financial men.

OBITUARY. London, August 31. Obituary.—General Sir F. Forestier Walker, at Tenby. CAPTAIN SCOTT'S EXPLORATION. Capetown, August 31. Cape newspapers defend the smallness of the Government's contribution to Captain Scott's expedition, which is due to depression, and urge that this is an opportunity for the mining magnates to show their private benevolence.