GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 29 December 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

AUSTRIAN NAVAL PROGRAMME. By Cable—Press Aaeoofcbtkra—Copyright. Vienna, December 2li. The Austro-Hungarian naval programme will be submitted to the Delegations on Wednesday. Two Dreadnoughts are to be completed in the autumn of 1913, two in 1914, and in 1915 three fast cruisers are to be completed. The programme is estimated, to cost £14,000,000. CONSPIRACY IN INDIA. r Bombay, December 2(5. Savarkar, the Indian student extrai dited from England in connection with the Nasik conspiracy case, has been sentenced to transportation for life, with the forfeiture of his property. ChanvarJcar has been sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. Other sentences were also imposed. FRENCH RAILWAY FATALITY, Paris, December 26. An express train dashed into a carriage containing nine passengers on a level crossing at Chateaudun. Six persons were killed. THE TURKISH ARMY. Constantinople, December 20. The Turkish Chamber agreed to the proposal of Shefket Pasha, Minister ol War, to expend three million sterling in reorganising "the army, A WATER SUPPLY SCHEME. St. Petersburg, December 27. A factory has been established for supplying the city mains, after filtering and then ozoning, with Neva River water. The energy of the ozone is 9000 volts.

PORTUGUESE BANK FAILURE. Lisbon, December 27. Twelve directors of the Portuguese Land and Mortgage Bank havebSen arrested, also Lucriano Castro, leader .of the Progressive Party, who acted as the bank's trustee. It is alleged that the defalcations total £400,000. Castro, who has for a long' time suffered from paralysis, did not appear in court, and was allowed to remain at home under a bail of ten million francs, four of his friends finding the money. The rest were bailed out on £4OOO a-piece. A PLUCKY ARREST. London, December 27. Charles Arthur, detected in committing a burglary at a public-house in the borough, was chased by Constable Hay,tread, and arrested after a hand-to-hand struggle, despite Arthur firing four shots at close range. All of them missed. RECRUITING FOR THE RAND. Lisbon, December 27. The Governor of Mozambique proposes that Government officials alone shall recruit natives for the Rand and that repatriation shall bo eniorced, otherwise the country wiij be depopulated,

DISEASE AMONGST SHEEP. Paris, December 27. A disease due to flooded and swampy pastures is decimating sheep. I THE CORONATION. London, December 27. The Duke of Connaught will have supreme command of the troops at the Coronation. Three thousand navals will participate. JAPAN AND CHINA. St. Petersburg, December 27. Alarmist rumours are current at Vladivostock as to tension between China and Japan. AN ACTIVE VOLCANO. ' Rome, December 27. Etna has renewed activity and is throwing out stones. CHRISTMAS AT THE VATICAN. Rome, December 27. For the first time in 40 years Xirias was not celebrated at the Vatican, and the Pope under medical advice did not hold the midnight mass. A SOCIALIST LECTURER. Paris, December 27. M. Jaures, the leader of the French Socialists, will receive £3200 for a course of twenty lectures in Argentina in 1911. A MINING BOOM. Ottawa, December 27. There is a boom in mining at Cobalt, and prospectors are rushing there daily. Australian and South African experts agree that Cobalt is likely to prove one of the world's greatest goldfields.