GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 261, 25 March 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

THE GERMAN NAVY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 23. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the battleship Kaisei will be armed with 14-inch guns. PROTECTING TRADE ROUTES. Capetown, March 23. The Cape Times, commenting on Mr. McKenna's assurance of a sufficiency oi cruisers to protect trade routes, complains of the remarkable fewness ou tbi Cape route, and suys that further pro tectioa is urgently needed. ADVICE TO MANUFACTURERS. London, March 23. Before the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Hamilton Wickes, British Trade Commissioner, in a paper on British trade, advised the English commission houses desirous of increasing their trade to study the requirements of each particular State, to specialise in some class of goods, and to send skilfn' representatives to push their goods in Australia as foreigners are doing. JAPANESE MILITARY STUDENTS. Berlin, March 23. A Japanese military mission will visit Germany in May for the purpose oi study. DECLARATION OF LONDON. London, March 23. Sir Edward Fry, first British Plenipotentiary to the Hague Peace Conference of 1907, urges the ratification of the Declaration of London. FIRE AT BUENOS AIRES. Buenos Aires, March 23. The damage through the fire at the Custom house is estimated at .e.)00,00(i. The repeated dock fires are causing uneasiness. THE HOUNDSDITCH CASE. London, March 23. In the lioumlsditch case a witness giving evidence said that Fritz had told him Morountzcff had boon wounded during the fight by one of his companions. BURGLARS BEAT THE POLICE. New York, March 23. The Mayor of Ohio, at the head of a: posso of police, surrounded an office in which five men were engaged in blowing up a safe, and although two robbers were wounded, all escaped. i j CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. Ottawa, March 23. For the ten months to January, 1911, the immigrants to Canada numbered 200,087.