GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 329, 16 June 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN ELECTION LIBEL. By cable. —Press Association. —Copyright London, June 14. Before the King's Bench Division, Lieut.-Col. Bromley Davenport, who unsuccessfully contested the election with Robert t'earce for the Leek division of Staffordshire was awarded £I2OO damages against l'e&rce for having printed an .ejection pamphlet libelling plaintiff. CHILI'S NAVY. London, June 14. The Evening Standard states that Chili is considering tenders for two 30,000-ton Dreadnoughts, each costing £2.500,000, and carrying ten fifteeninch guns, NATIONAL INSURANCE. London, June 14. Fifteen Miouoand doctors have endorsed the policy of the British Medical Association towards the National Insurance Bill.

A LEVIATHAN LINER. London, June 14. The leviathan liner Olympic has started on her maiden voyage. [The Olympic is 860 feet long, 92 feet wide, and her tonnags i~ 50,000 tons,] AUSTRALIAN CADETS. London, June 14. The Australian cadets have arrived at Plymouth all well, and are encamping at Richmond. A CORONATION OUTING, z London, June 14. The Ragged School Union (Pearson's fund) on behalf of the Sunbeam Society of Adelaide, will give a Coronation outing to a thousand children in Epping Forest.

WHEAT PROSPECTS. New York, June 14. Farmers in the North-West are looking for a record wheat crop. HUGE SUBWAY SCHEME. ' New York, June 14. The New York subway project is the largest ever planned, and is to cost £50,000,000.

COURT-MARTIAL IN BRAZIL. Rio de .laniero, June 14. A court-martial has acquitted the Marqaez d'Arocha; eommander at Cobra Island, of a charge of murdering the marines who died of sunstroke while imprisoned thore.