GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 327, 14 June 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TIIE BIRKBECK BANK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, .lime 12. The Bank of England lias advanced to the Birkbeek Bank £4.000,000, and the payment of depositors is proceeding quietly. ANTHROPOLOGICAL STATISTICS. London, -June 12. Tho Anthropological Institute has invited the Premiers to co-operate in securing periodic measurement of adults and children ot all races of the Empire, and to obtain other information for the projected Imperial Bureau of Anthropology in London. ' A FATAL FIRE. London, June 12. Two men and four children perished in a fire in a shop at Litherland, near Liverpool. THE INFLEXIBLE. London, June 12. The battleship Inflexible, injured .some weeks ago, will not be docked. TIIE BLSLEY MEETING. London, June T2. The New Zealand rifle team is well encamped at Bisley, and is practising. GLASGOW SEAMEN ON STRIKE. London, June 12. Glasgow seamen have given notice to strike on June 17. GREAT ELECTRICAL STORM. Now York, June 12. ! A great electrical storm has been raging for two days. Five people have been killed, and five are missing. Damage to the extent of £200,000 has been caused to property. AN UNSUOCESSFI ! L ACTION. New York, June 12. At St. Louis a suit brought by C. u. Post against the American Federation of Labor and the Bucks Stove and Range Company, seeking to prevent a closed shop agreement, and asking for £150,000 damages, has been dismissed.