GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 160, 15 October 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

CHINESE RAILWAY SCHEME DEAD. By Cable.—Press Association— Copyright London, October 13. Router's Peking correspondent states that Chinese circles regard the Clihest ' Aigun railway scheme as dead. ; AFFAIRS IN HONDURAS. Rio de Janiero, October 13. General Valadares has agreed to General Davila's request to retire from the Presidency of Honduras and to proceed to Tegucigalpa. THE AUSTRL4N NAVY. Vienna, October 13. The Austro-Hungarian delegation have been asked gradually to increase tht naval force to 14,000 men. SHOOTING OF KAFFIRS. Berlin, October 13. The recently reported shooting ot Kaffir mine workers at Wilhelmtal in German South-West Africa was due to the natives storming a hotel which re-' fused them liquor. VANCOUVER LIBEL CASE. Vancouver, October 13. Mr. Taylor, Mayor of Vancouver, who is also editor of the Vancouver World, is suing Mr. W. Nichol, proprietor of The Province, for £IO,OOO for libel. A BARQUE SUNK. London, October 13. A trawler sank the Swedish barque Diana off the Dogger Bank. Seven were drowned. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. London, October 13. The steamer Heathfleld foundered oft (the Norfolk coast. Two were saved, but twenty are still missing. ' A SYNAGOGUE GUTTED. London, October 13. The Jewish Synagogue in Raven Row, Mile End, its been gutted by fire. CURE W RIiNUrVv>ORM. I . London, October 13. | The Finchley educational authorities ,have been expedimenting on ringworm {with X-rays, and find cures were effected in 84 days. . AUSTRIA AND TURKEY. Vienna, October 13. Baron Aehrenthal, Minister of Foreign Affairs, informed a delegation that all questions pending with Turkey were set- | tied. No change in Crete's legal position could occur without Austria's consent. Any solution must recognise Turkey's sovereignty. AUSTRALIAN LAND TAX. Louaon, October 13. # Newspapers publish the text of ~a' cablegram from the British Australasian Society, representing the principal lanfl • companies, to Mr. Fisher, Federal Premier, protesting against the land tax , as oppressively heavy and restricting the flow of capital and inducing its withdrawal.

NAVAL DEVELOPMENT. Rio de Janiero, October 13. The Brazilian Admiralty is studying ( the invention of a Chinese naval officer abolishing the conning towers, ?nd placing the commander in a better protected [position, while retaining full control of the ship's fire and navigation. WORKERS' COMPENSATION. London, October 13. There are 6,500,000 workers under the Compensation Act in Britain. Three million pounds were paid in compe7isation last year. Miners headed the list with £1 per head, and factories <wer.3 lowt'.t with 3s sd. COLONIAL WINE. London, October 13. There are seventy-three entries for, Ithe colonial wine competition at the Brewers' Exhibition. Forty-oni are from j New South Wales, seventeen f'"*im South Australia, and fifteen for wine bottled [in England.