GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 17 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE GERMAN CROWN PRINCE. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. Calcutta, January 15. The German Crown Prince at Abbdttabad witnessed a display of lull warfare and afterwards entrained for Helhi. TRAIN ROBBERS ARRESTED. New York, January 15. Four arrests have been made at Ogden of men believed Co be those who held up the Southern Pacific express on January 1. A GAINSBOROUGH PORTRAIT. Berlin, January 15. Professor Heinmann has discovered at the Ducal Palace at Ludwigsburg a fine portrait by Gainsborough of Queen Charlotte, dated 1765. BELGIAN STRIKE SETTLED. Brussels, January 15. The strike at Liege has ended. The mill-owners have 'granted many of the demands. A ROYAL TOUR. Berlin, January 15. The King of Saxony will start for the Soudan on January 29. He will study the industries of Alexandria and Cairo. ITALY'S NAVAL PROGRAMME. Rome, January 15. Italy lias finally decided to add two Dreadnoughts to the four previously arranged for. THE SPANISH REVENUE. Madrid, January 15. The Spanish revenue for 1910 shows an increase of 105,000,000 pesetas (£4,000,000). THE KING OF SPAIN. Madrid, January 15. King Alfonso, on his homeward journey from Melilla, visited the Gorges of the Wolf, the scene of several sanguinary battles during the Riff campaign. AFRICAN RAILWAYS. London, January 15. The Government is arranging for the construction of a railway connecting the Nigerian tinfields at Bauchi with Baro Dano on the trunk line. THE THREATENED STRIKE. London, January 15. Shipowners are not perturbed regarding the threatened sailors' and firemen's international strike during the Coronation period. Orbell, organise?'- of the dockers' union, is sceptical, possibly owing to lack of organisation. THE WADAI DIFFICULTY.

Cairo, January 15. Slatin Bey's mission to Darfur to bring pressure to bear on native chiefs with a view to preventing raids in Wadai has been a success.