GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 139, 21 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW P. & 0. STEAMERS,

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, September Is). In addition to the steamers Maloja and 'Medina already ordered, the Peninsular and Oriental Company is inviting tenders for two mure steamers for the Cape-Australian service. ALLEGED SPIES RELEASED. St. Petersburg, September 19. Ileinz and Wenzel, arrested at Moscow as spies, have been released. BUYING A CONTRACT. •New York, September 19. Mr. Schwab, ironmaster, and formerly manager for the Steel Trust, announces that he has outwitted the latter and will .build the new China navy. The contract was the result of hospitality shown to Tsai Tao in New York. SWIMMING. London, September 19. The 50yds swimming race at Sheffield resulted:—Beaurepaire 1, Battersby 2, Hatfield 3. Beaurepaire won by six yards. Time, Gmin 21 2-ssec. RICH JAPANESE TOURIST. New York, September 19. Baron Mitza, one of the richest Japanese, who is touring the world, has reached New York; BEET SUGAR. London, September 19. Mr. Licht, the sugar expert, estimates that the production of beet sugar has decreased 230,000 tons, and that for the season there will be a deficiency of 400,000 tons. A MOTORIST KILLED. Paris, September 19. M. Gutman, a Paris banker, was killed while motoring at Melun, and his wife seriously injured. BRUSSELS EXHIBITION. Brussels, September 19. The King of the Belgians lias opened the reconstructed British section of the exhibition. SAVED BY A DOG. London, September 19. The Castle Hotel at King's Lynn was burned and the lives of the inmates only saved by a fox terrier arousing them. CANADA'S WHEAT CROP. Received (September 20, 9 p.m. Ottawa, September 20. The Canadian Pacific Railway officials in Western Canada estimate the wheat .crop at 94,700,000 bushels. QUEEN ALEXANDRA. Received September 20, 10.50 p.m. London, September 20. Queen Alexandra has embarked ait Dundee en route .to Copenhagen.