GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 322, 8 June 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY'S LATEST. By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, June 6. The Remuera, a new boat for the Now Zealand Shipping Company, has been launched at Dumbarton. THE KING AT ALDERSHOT. London, June 6. The King is spending four days at Alilershot, and despite the heat he has visited the entire command, including the Territorials. To-day he watched the shooting with Long Toms. AN INCENDIARY'S SUICIDE. ' Chicago, June 0. Leopold Dreyfus, head of L. Dreyfus and Company, committed suicide after confessing to being a party to the burning of his business place, and being one. of an organised band of incendiaries. FIRE AT CRYSTAL PALACE.* London, June 6. A fire in the southern end of the Crystal Palace had a good hold on the woodwork before it was extinguished. Meanwhile the Fair of Fashion was evacuated. NOT "PETER THE PAINTER." Manila, June 6. The man supposed to be Peter the Painter, arrested as a stowaway in an American tramp, has been released. EARTHQUAKES IN SPAIN. Madrid, June 6. Twenty-two earthquake shakes have been recorded in Spain in twenty-four hours. ELECTRICAL FIRM SUED. London, June 6. The, municipal council of Johannesburg is suing D. Stewart and Co., .of Glasgow, and William Beardmare for £400,000 for failing to complete the installation of an engineering work in connection with the electrical plant. Stewart maintains that the failure was duo to the insuitability of the coal. Beardmore guaranteed Stewart's liability to the extent of £115,134.

UNION JACK BURNED. London, June 0, Amongst the flags decorating the streets at tie musical festival at New Ross, Wexford, was a Union Jack which the youths tore down' and burned at the foot of a monument to the heroes of '9B amidst shouting and cheering.