GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 299, 12 May 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

KING'S LETTER TO THE NATION. By cable.—Press Association—Copyright London, May 111. Raphael Tuck and Sons are publishing with 'Sir Lawrence Alma-Tailema's allegorical setting, a facsimile of King George'* letter to the nation on his accession. The proceeds of the sale will be devoted to charities. THE OPIUM TRAFFIC. Fekin, May 10. An edict describing Britain's signa-< ture of the opium agreement as a generous act, exhorts provincial authorities independently to suppress the growth of the poppy and also opium-smoking, in order to fulfil the wishes of a friendly nation. ] THE CORONATION DURBAR. London, May 10. Eighty members of' the Houses of , Lords and Commons have expressed their intention of attending the Delhi Coronation Durbar. < STRANDED AND REFLOATED. London, May 10. The ship Saga, bound from Port Pirie to Falmouth, was stranded at Wicklow, but was refloated. LAND COMPANY'S DIVIDEND. London, May 10. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company notifies an interim dividend on ordinary stock of 4 per cent. STINIE MORRISON. • , , London, May 10.

Stinie Morrisoh, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Beron at Clapham, struck a warder at Dartmoor. Two warders have been placed in h\s cell to prevent him committing suicide. ANOTHER SCANDAL. Paris, May 10. A scandal similar to that in the Foreign Office has been discovered in the Ministry of Agriculture. It is reported that the defalcations reach £"4000. CANADIAN* MAIL CONTRACT. Ottawa, May 10. ~The Canadian Northern Company has succeeded in obtaining the mail contract from London to Hongkong, thus ousting the Canadian-Pacific Company. MRS. MAYBRICK. New .York, May 10. Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who now lives at Chicago, has learnt of the death ( once favorite son James, who was the principal, though innocent, instrument of her conviction. She says her son was dead to her for twenty years. EARTHQUAKES IN CALIFORNIA. New York, May 10. Earthquake shocks have been felt in Southern California.