GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 231, 4 February 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

MISSIONARY'S BANISHMENT. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright. London, February 2. The alleged silencing and summary banishment of Dr. Peter Eraser, a popular Methodist medical missionary 'at Khasi, Assam, for having declined to sign an agreement to consult Major Cole, civil agent in Eastern Bengal and Assam, and to abide by his decision relating to the country districts which he (Dr. Eraser) proposed to visit, has led to a petition to the King. The question will also be raised in Parliament. A RIVER OP OIL BLAZING. York, February 2. Oil waste took lire near an oil well in Washington County, Oklahoma, and as a result two miles of the oil-covered river is on fire. A hundred fire-fighters are at work. AN ARTIST'S RECOGNITION. Berlin, February 2. The National Zeitung states that the Kaiser refused to ratify the suggestion that M. Rodin, the famous French sculptor, should be made a chevalier of the Order of Merit. TURKEY'S ARMY. Vienna, February 2. The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle learns from Salonika that GOO,OOO men from the reserve, in addition to the standing army of 409,000, are being summoned. The alleged reason is to prevent complications in the spring. KINO EDWARD MEMORIAL. Ottawa, February 2. The Quebec provincial legislature will erect a statue to King Edward on the historic Plains of Abraham. THE PRINTERS' LOOK-OUT. London, February 2. The lock-out of printers affects the Typographical Association of Manchester, with a membership of 22,000, the Scottish Typographical Society, with a membership of 4000, and several small unions. NEW COINAGE. London, February 2. The new coinage is in circulation. Mr. portrait of the King was the successful one. THE LARGEST SUBMaKINE. Pai is, February 2 . The submarine Mariotte, with a displacement of 1100 tons, the largest submarine in tne world, has been launched at Cherbourg.

POST OFFICE ROBBERY. London, February 2. Four thieves at Oillingham, Kent, entered the post office through the roof, prised open the safe, and stole 555 sovereigns. There have been three arrests made. Three hundred pounds sterling was stolen in a similar way a few montns ago. FLOODS IN IDAHO. New York, February 2. Eleven days' rain has isolated many towns in Idaho, but so far there have been no fatalities. PETER, THE PAINTER. Naples, February 2. The police have arrested a man who is supposed to be Peter, tne Painter. A STEAMER FOUNDERED. Madrid, February 2. Advices from Sagunto state that the steamer Lepanto has foundered and 22 passengers have perished.