GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 302, 16 May 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FOREST FIRES IN CANADA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Ottawa, May 14. Forest fires are raging on both banks I of tho St. Lawrence, but no casualties i are reported. INVESTMENTS IN ARGENTINE. < London, May 14. At the annual meeting of the Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, the chairman stated that the company had invested £550,000 of its funds in the Argentine. A MAMMOTH GERMAN LINER. Berlin, May 14, The Hamburg-America Line is building a 50,000-ton steamer with Parson turbine engines. COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE. Madrid, May 14. The Chamber and the Senate have adopted a Compulsory Military Service Bill. THE LATEST TORPEDO. Berlin, May 14. ' The latest German torpedo is 19y s in in diameter, with a speed of 72ft per second, and effective at 4000 yds. TEACHERS' PROTESTATIONS. London, May 14. Six thousand teachers were present at a demonstration at the Albert Hall to protest against the Holmes-Morant circular, which deprecated the appointment of ex-elementary teachers as local inspectors, ami suggesting that they were uncultured, imperfectly educated, and socially inferior, and claiming that inspectors should be educated at the public schools and Oxford or Cambridge Universities.