GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 185, 15 November 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

PORTUGUESE AMNESTY. By Cable—Press Association—CopyrightLondon, November 13. Reuters Lisbon correspondent reports that the amnesty includes Senhor Franco, the Premier under the late King Carlos, and his colleagues. BILLIARDS. London, November 13. The match between Gray and Lovejoy has been concluded. Gray scored 91)00 and Lovejoy 6455. Gray made breaks of 306, 713, 430. The makers of the tables and makers of the balls presented Gray with 210 guineas. [ INVESTORS ANXIOUS. London, November 13. The run on the Birkbeek Band continued. Many stayed up all night, and thousands were waiting in the queue at closing time. On Saturday four hundred clients paid in moneys. The newspapers insist on the complete solvency of the institution. AFTER MANY DAYS. Berlin, November 13. The Schuraztal Zeitung gives details of a tragedy which has just come to light. Two Germans captured in the war of 1870 were forgotten and languished in captivity for forty years in French Guiana, whither they had been deported by mistake. They haVe now returned to Germany. The wives ot 'both are alive, but one remarried four years ago. A movement has been initiated to claim compensation from the French Government. PRAYER BOOK REVISION. London, November 13. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a statement to Convocation, indicates that the revision of the prayer book will be steadily pressed on. TITLES REFUSED. Capetown, November 13. It is stated that Messrs. Botha and Smuts have declined titles. FLOODS IN PARIS. Paris, November 13. Floods are general in the basin of the Seine. Water has invaded the Quai d'Auteuil, in the west of the city, and the sewers are overflooding in the Rue Felicien David. The military are raising the walls of the quays. SHIPPING FREIGHTS. London, November 13. The Ocean Steamship and other companies have obtained an injunction from the Higher Court restraining the P. and O. Company from lowering freight rates between Antwerp and Eastern ports, which was fixed under mutual agreement in 1899. AUSTRIAN NAVAL ESTIMATES. Vienna, November 13. The Hungarian delegations have adopted the naval estimates. A NEW CRUISER. London, November 13. The Admiralty has called tenders from private builders for an armored cruiser of the largest gun . power arret highest speed- yet designed.