GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 260, 24 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

I NEGRO IMMIGRANTS. j IBy (fable—Press Association—Copyright. I Ottawa, March 22. j | The negroes who it was stated yesterday wen; refused admission to Alberta i were not refused admission, but only detained pending inquiries whether the immigration laws do not discriminate against negroes. The Washington State Department sent an oflicial to Ottawa to secure the immigrants their rights. CHECKING DEBASING LITE RATI'UIi. London, March 22. An association is being formed to prevent the circulation of debasing and demoralising fiction. It is being supported by leading educationalists. "A LONDON MODE." London, March 22. In a thousand London shops during the All British shopping week it is intended to endeavour to create a London mode instead of a Paris mode. GERMAN BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED. Berlin, March 22. The Empress of Germany launched the new battleship Kaiser at Kiel. FIRE AT BUENOS AIRES. Buenos Aires, March 22. One of the customs houses, filled with merchandise, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £250,000. STRIKE AT SINGER'S WORKS, London, March 22. Ten thousand employees at Singer's sewing machine works at Glasgow have struck, the grievance being tho girls' wages. KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. London, March 22. Mr. Bertram Mackennal, the Australian sculptor, has been commissioned to design a memorial to King Edward. The central figure will be a figure oi peace, and King Edward in the robes of a Knight of the Garter. MEAT-PACKERS ON TRIAL. New York, March 22. The indicted meat-packers at Chicago lost the fight, and must now stand their trial like ordinary people. STRIKE OF HUDSON BAY EMPLOYEES. Ottawa, March 22. All the Hudson Bay Company's employees west of Edmonton are on strike. MINING DISASTER. New York, March 22. Nine men were killed in the Pittsburg and Buffalo Coal Company's mine at East Cannonsburg through a fall of loose slate. GROWTH OF CO-OPERATION. London, March 22. The Chief Registrar's statistics for 1909 show the increasing growth of cooperative societies, which have a membership of 2,777,513, the total assets ot the societies being £00,597,440, an increase of £2,250,000 on the previous year. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE. Berlin, March 22. _ The Localanzeiger says that the Englishman arrested for espionage maintained that he was a business man. The Tagcblatt says there are no proofs that he is a naval officer. MURDERING PARIS APACHES. Paris, March 22. Apaches murdered a policeman at midnight in a crowded boulevard. Knives and revolvers were used. EXTRADITION TREATY. New York, March 22. Mr. Taft is unofficially consulting the French Ambassador at Washington with a view to the ratification of an ex tradition treaty. Mr. Taft awaits a disclosure of the Senate's attitude before acting officially in the matter.