GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 323, 9 June 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADA'S CURRENCY. By cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Ottawa, June 7. The authorities have been notified from Washington of the decision of the United States to accept Canadian live and ten-dollar gold coins at par. A DUNEDIN LOAN. London, June 7. The Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board is issuing £IOO,OOO 4 per cent, debentures at par. The Financial Times describes them as a sound investment on good authority.

FEDERATION OF POSTAL EMPLOYEES. Paris, June 7. The International Congress of Postal and Telegraph Employees resolved to establish an international federation. THE CHAMPAGNE TROUBLE. Paris, June 7. The troops at Bar-sur-Aube are overawing the district. They caused winegrowers approaehing from a number of villages to retire.

GARIBALDI'S VETERANS. Rome, June 7. The veterans of Garibaldi's British legion participated in the unveiling of a statue of the late King Victor Emmanuel. BALLARAT MUSICAL CONTEST. London, June 7. Appreciative notices appear in London newspapers of the Ballarat National Eisteddfod. Bandmaster Moran, late of the Coldstream Guards, will act as adjudicator, ANAESTHETICS DISCOVERY. London, June 7. The newspapers record the centenary of Dr. Simpson's discovery of anaesthetics. BRIGANDS' DEMAND. Constantinople, June 7. Brigands demand .€IO,OOO ransom 'for Dr. Richter, the German archaeologist who was kidnapped last week. THE FRENCH TOTALISATOR. Paris, June 7. Pari-mutuel statistics show that in 1910 £ 14,980,599 was . handled, being 7s 6d per head of the population. Charities benefited to the extent of £299,011 during the past year. [A percentage of the takings of the totalisator goes to charities.]

A BICYCLE HIGHWAYMAN. London, June 7. Some motor cyclists on the main road between St. Albans and Harnct were overtaken by another cyclist, who demanded money. He fired five revolver shots, wounding one motor cyclist seriously, and escaped. UNIVERSAL PEACE PROPAGANDA. London, June 7. The sum of £20.000 has been anonymously donated for the distribution throughout Britain, Germany, France and -Italy of free copies of Norman Angell's book, "The Great Illusion," in favor of universal peace. SOUTH AFRICA AND IMMIGRATION. Capetown, June 7. Mr. Hertzog, in a speech in Orangia deprecating immigration, declared that the first task was to provide for South Africa's poor whites. The speech is being much commented on.

LOSS OF MEMORY. London, June 7. The police found William Horace Wearne, an Australian visitor to the Coronation, aged 35, wandering in Leicester, having lost his memory. He was in possession of a large sum in cash and credit notes. He is now in a Leicester infirmary. ■