GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 207, 10 December 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

TRAWLERS FOUNDERED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 9, 10.45 p.m. , Tangier, December 9. Two Spanish trawlers foundered in a gale at Larache, and sixteen were drowned. * NEW CUNARD LINER. Received 9, 10.45 p.m. London, December 9. The contract for the, new Cunard steamer has been given to John Brown and Co., of the Clydebank works. THE KING OF SPAIN. Received 9, 9.30 p.m. Madrid, December 9. King Alfonso visits Melilla early in January. • [Melilla is a fortified convict settlement in Morocco, belonging to Spain.] A GENEROUS CHURCHMAN. j Received 10, 12.10 a.m. London, December 9. The Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist has been opened at Norwich. The Duke of Norfolk bore the cost, amounting to a quarter of a million pounds. CHOLERA AT MADEIRA. Received 10, 12.10 a.m. Madeira, December 9. Four hundred. and- ninety-two cases of cholera are reported, and 148 deaths. THE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. Received 10, 12.10 a.m. , Berlin, December 9. Lasker won the*'eleventh game, and thus secures the championship. BIG CONSPIRACY ALLEGED. *" Received 10, 12.10 a.m. New York, December 9. Donald McKenzie has been arrested at Washington and charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government of 20,000 acres of Alaskan coal lands. Five others were previously apprehended.