GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 207, 10 December 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

KILLED BY A TRAIN. Bj Cable—Press. Association—Copyright. London, December 8. The only son of Sir Archibald Geikie, president of the Royal Society, fell from the platform at Bayswater and was killed by a train. , THE EX-SULTAN'S MONEY. Berlin, December 8. The Supreme Court ordered the Imperial Bank to pay Abdul Hamid, the ex-Sultan, £900,000 which he deposited in the bank. It is understood that the Porte is the real plaintiff. EFFECTS OF PETROL TAX. London, December 8. The London General Omnibus Company paid £32 per omnibus for nine months' petrol tax, thus preventing the ordinary dividend being paid. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. London, December 8. The Great Central Railway steamer Blackburn collided with the steam ship Rook in the North Sea on Wednesday night. The former sank in a few minutes. A steamer picked up a boat with eighteen of the crew and seven passengers. The other two, with thirty-four aboard, had a long exposure before they were rescued. An engineer was killed by the explosion of a steam pipe. ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. New York, December 8. Highwaymen entered the Hotel Woodward, at Los Angelos, early this morning. They beat the clerk insensible, robbed the cash drawer, and escaped. PASSION PLAY PROFITS. Berlin, December 8. The profits of the latest series of performances of the Oberammergau Passion Play were £04,820. The sum of £38,300 was distributed among 360 performers and the local poor assisted. The balance, £21,709, will remjiin in the village treasury for communal purposes l . KRUPPS AND RUSSIA. Berlin, December 8. The Essen correspondent of the Tageblatt contradicts Russian reports about the 'establishment by Krupps of works for armour-making at Mariupor. WOMEN EMIGRANTS. London, December 8. The Imperial Colonist Magazine publishes the report of a conference demanding more adequate protection for women emigrants. The Rev. Mr. | Gwynne moved and carried a resolution that the conference, having received unsatisfactory information about the method of dealing with emigrants in New South Wales and Queensland, will be glad to hear that the Colonial Institute's committee is prepared to enquire into the arrangements made by the Agents-General for the safety and well-being of women. NEED FOR DISCIPLINE. New York, December 8. At the unveiling of the statue of Baron Yon Steufel, who aided the Amer- i ican revolutionists, Mr. Taft, speaking' at Washington,' said that Americans: should remember that no people, however warlike, could make a military force without drill and discipline. The theory that people could make an army overnight had cost the States millions of dollars and thousands of lives.