GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 177, 5 November 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE MAINE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. New York, November 3. Diverg are working at Havana attempting to raise the Maine. Colonel Brady, the investigator who reported to President McKinley after the war, announces that he believes the ship j was blown up by a Spanish electrician: named Jose Zalvaldo, who was in Moro Castle. Zavaldo was afterwards executed for a cause not assigned. UNAUTHORISED NOTE ISSUE. New York, November 3. President Estrada, of Nicaragua, requests the release of Secreest, arrested at Chicago in connection with printing unauthorised Nicaraguan notes. Secreest, it is alleged, was authorised by the revolutionaries. A DEMENTED CRIMINAL. London, November 3. Mrs. Williams, who was recently sentenced for forgery, has been committed to a lunatic asylum. NEW COALING DEPOT. ' Berlin, November 3. A German Abyssinian company proposes to establish, a coaling and provisioning depot .at Jibutil, a French colony, to avoid the heavy harbor dues at Aden. HORSE-BREEDING. London, November 3. The Government will spend £40,000 on horse-breeding next year. AN AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS. London, November 3. I Miss Dolly Castles has been engaged, as principal girl at the Drury Lane pantomime. -j BILLIARDS. ' ! London, November 3. i Inman and Reece have challenged Stevenson for the billiards championship. Gray has not entered. Playing Nelson,' Gray made 431, 693 and 231 unfinished. The scores are: Nelson 3856, Gray 4502/ BUBONIC PLAGUE. London, November. 3. < y The leading medical experts have initi- 1 ated a strong movement in favor of the Government organising the universal destruction of rats in order to extirpate plague germs. The outbreak in Suffolk, is attributed to manure shipped to London containing sweepings of Argentine cattle ships with the remains of rats aijd other animals. Plague rats have been found in vessels in the Thames, and stringent precautions) are being taken. UNITED STATES ELECTIONS. New York, November 3. * Mr. McKinley, chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, in & "Tetter to the President, states that the Democrats have no chance of securing a majority in the House of Representative at the forthcoming elections. ' 1 CANADIAN TARIFF. Ottawa, November 3. Criticism is being directed against reciprocity between Canada and the United States, on the ground that the formter will be merely opening her door to' ljeV neighbor's trusts and manufacturers.' , Mr. Feilding, Minister of Finance, announces that negotiations are now proceeding. The proposals are based on the freer exchange of natural products and raw material. British preference' js untouched. The conferenec will probably end in three weeks.