GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 189, 19 November 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW CUXARD LINER. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, November 17. The C'unard Company is inviting tenders for a 50,000-ton steamer, with a speed of 23 knots, to carry 3790 passengers.

BRITISH lIORSE FLESH. New York, November 17. Twenty officers, representing live armies, competed at the National Horse

Show. Colonel McKenna, of Great Britain, was first, Lieut. Martin, of the United States, second, and France was third. TEMPERANCE TEACHING. St. Petersburg, November 17. The Duma lias adopted a Bill directing teaching as to the injurious effects of alcohol to be included in the curriculum of elementary schools. £1,000,000 FOR NEW DOCK. London, November 17. The Clyde Trust has applied for a provisional order enabling it to construct at Renfrew, at a cost of £1,000,000,.a

tidal dock of 32 acres and the largest graving dock in Great Britain. COLLIERY ACCIDENT. London, November 17. A tram with 62 colliers on board broke away down an incline at Kingswood, Bristol, and dashed to the bottom, three men being fatally and 27 being severely injured.

THE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. Berlin, November 17. The third game between Lasker and Janowski in the chess championship was drawn. THE PANAMA CANAL. New York, November 17. President Taft, at a banquet at Panama, declared that the American people

would feel utterly dishonored by the annexation of Panama, unless the conduct of the Panamans left no other course open. Such a contingency was most improbable.

CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. Ottawa, November 17. Earl Grey's speech from the throne at the opening of the Dominion Parliament forecasted no legislation of great importance. A Bank Act was needed, as the charters lapsed in June. He was disgusted at the apathy of the Dominion Government. Farmers of the prairie provinces were organising a fund_ to build a railway to Hudson's Bay, as'the need or a new grain route was imperative.

MODERNISING EDUCATION. London, November 17.

Mr. Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, has issued a protest against the statute abolishing compulsory Greek at Oxford which was promulgated on Tuesday.