GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 135, 16 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

DEAR MEAT. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Berlin, September 14. Replying to a deputation, the Minister of Agriculture negatived the idea of relaxing the .regulations governing the importation of cattle at present, inasmuch as it was not likely to relieve the situation as regards dear meat. PROPHETIC SIR GEORGE. Received September 15, 10.10 p.m. London, September 15. Sir Geo. Reid, at Portsmouth, recalled Australians' sense of security in the British Navy. . It was impossible to forget that peace or war lay often in the hands of a single man. Britain's only safeguard was to continue to build Dreadnoughts. WHAT GERMANS EAT. Received September IC, 1 a.m. Berlin, September 15. The German Minister of Agriculture states that half the meat consumed' in. Germany is porky whereon "the poor largely'live. GOLF. /.../../.... JEWEL ROBBERY. Ottawa, September 14. The Countess of Antrim's jewels were stolen at Winnipeg. ALASKAN TOWN BURNED. New York, September 14. Kassan Kannery, town in Alaska, has been burned. "THE TERRIERS." London, September 14. Ninety-six territorial officers resigned m August, WARSHIPS IN COLLISION. ' ■ ■ • Rome, September 14. During a cyclone in* the Gulf of Taranto, Italian warships there dragged their anchors, and some came into collision. The damage is estimated at £40,000.

GREEK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. Athens, September 14. The King of Greece has opened the National Assembly. MR. ROOSEVELT. New York September 14. Mr. Roosevelt is being denounced foi the part he is taking in State politics. DEFRAUDING THE STATE. '- —itNew York,. September 14. Ernest Gerbracht, formerly superintendent of the Williamsburg sugar refinery, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment arid fined five thousand dollars for conspiracy to defraud the Government. THE CANADIAN MINISTRY. Ottawa, September 14. It is rumoured that Mr. Aylesworth, Minister for Justice, is going to resign. EXPLOSION IN A MINE. New York September 14. Two nien were killed and five injured in the explosion caused by a defective miner's lamp at Linton, Indiana. Three hundred men had just been moved from the shaft when the accident occurred.