GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 9 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE 'VARSITY BOAT RACE. . I By Cable—Press Asseeiation —Copyright. I London, March 7. 1 W. Littlejohn, of Melbourne, is rowing in the Oxford crew, and G. E. Fair- • bairn in that of Cambridge. M. Bruce ' is coaching the latter crew. IN THE BOMB BUSINESS. Calcutta, March 7. Revelations made by Mukherji, who recently threw a bomb at a public works engineer, led to a police raid on a group at the National Medical College, where they arrested Norcndranath Baimcrji, a tutor, on a charge of attempted murder. The bomb thrown by Mukherji was of scientific workmanship and highly dangerous. ALLEGED ALASKAN FRAUDS. New York. March 7. The Federal indictments have been issued against seven residents of Chicago on a charge of conspiracy in connection with Alaskan land frauds involving £10,000,000. CONGO DEVELOPMENT. London, March 7.

The Brussels correspondent of the Daily Express reports that the Belgian Minister for the Colonies has agreed to Lever Bros, forming a company with a capital of £1,000,000 to plant palm oil trees and to establish a factory to deal with oil products in the Congo State. AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE. New York, March 7. The ship Ayran has arrived at San Diego (California). She left Philadelphia 207 days ago. The captain was struck blind at sea. PRESIDENT DIAZ DYING. Mexico, March 7. President Diaz is on his death-bed. United States troops arc massed on the Mexican borders. ALLEGED CORRUPTION. Ottawa, March 7. Mr. Lancelot, Liberal member for Ottawa, was charged by Mr. Blondin, in the House, with working for his own purposes in connection with the Government employees in the Sor'el shipyard. The Committee of Privileges was ordered to investigate the charge. A CANADIAN STRIKE. Ottawa, March 7. The manager of Springhill Mines, who was arrested on a charge preferred by labor agitators, has been acquitted. Cape Breton police have been drafted in to guard him against the strikers. NEGLIGENT NAVIGATION. London, March 7. Captain Dumming, of the ship Ardencraig, which went ashore on the Scilly Islands on January 8, has had his certificate suspended for three months for having neglected to tako proper precautions. ADRIFT ON A FLOE. St. Petersburg, March 7. Nearly all the fishermen who were adrift on an ice floe in the Gulf of Finland have been saved. N.Z.L. AND M.A. COMPANY. London, March 7. The Financial Times states that as the result of negotiations between the trustees of the third debenture holders and the directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company the trustees are more favorable to a reorganisation of the capital, based upon a reduction of liability of £8,500,000, by contribution from the proprietors, supplemented from the reserve. ORIGIN OF RHEUMATISM. London, March 7. Professor R. J. Godlec, delivering the Huntcrian lecture at the University of London, stated that rheumatoid' arthritis and other forms of rheumatism arc due to the streptobaeillus malae, and are directly traceable to bad teeth. Eighty per cent, of the cases of rheumatoid arthritis which he had investigated -were accompanied bv decayed teeth. Professor Godlee instanced cures by means of vaccines. A LANDLORD COMPLAINS. London, March' 7. Lord Howard de Walden is suing John Lewis, a silk mercer, for alleged libel in placing in his shop a placard accusing Lord de Walden, who is his landlord, of exercising wicked and unscrupulous oppression. The action is the climax of ten years' litigation. BRITISH TRADE INCREASE. London, March 7. Imports have increased by £4,918,448 and exports by £3,901,250. Re-exports increased by £190,404.