GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 3, 28 June 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A GIIT OF PLATE. By Cable—Press Assooiation—Cop right, London, June 28. Lady Northcote presented Australia's t gift of plate to 11.M.5. Commonwealth I at Spitliead. Captain Vaughan Lewes, j, acknowledging the gift, said it gave him the greatest pleasure to accept the j magnificent present. He sincerely ], thanked Australia on .belialf of the whole I navy for the honor done them. "FIREMEN KILLED. I Vancouver, June 20. a David 1 Campbell, chief of the fire bri- <] gade, and two firemen were killed under q a falling wall. The chief was leading h Bis men when the lire was at its worst. OIL BARGE EXPLODES. Vancouver, June 20. An explosion on an oil barge at Port Arthur, Texas, killed one man and started a firei which did damage to the extent of £50,000. 1 <>' i TUBERCULOSA MILK. London, June 26. The quarterly public health report of c London shows that of 760 samples of 1 milk 106 were affected with tuberculosis. { THE FESTIVITIES IN LONDON. J London, June 26. 1 There were brilliant entertainments on < Sunday night. At the foreign embassies ' banquets were given in honor of the j royal guests and envoys, particularly j those from the United States, France, and Germany. A RAILWAY SOLD. \ London, June 26. 1 The shareholders of the London, Til- '' bury, and Southend Railway have ap- - proved the sale of the lino to the Mid- 1 land Railway Company. j THE CORONATION MASS. < ' ''' London, June 26. ' At the Coronation mass at Westmin- 3 ster Cathedral, Catholic envoys, peers, ' peeresses,' members of the House of Commons, and also a number of officers 1 of the overseas contingents were pre- 1 sent. EXCURSION STEAMER MISSING. St. Petersburg', June 26. A steamer returning to Stockholm from Helsingfors was wrecked on the Skerries, and the fate of four hundred excursionists is unknown. ' EXPLOSION ON A BATTLESHIP. , London, June 20. , An explosion on the battleship Illustrious at Spithead while coaling injured ] three stokers. i THREATENED MINERS' STRIKE. London, June 20. Northumberland Miners' Council has r decided to have a ballot on > the question of tendering notices to strike ! against the three-shift system, and to ; ask the Federation of Britain to agree to a national stoppago. i THE WHITE CITY. ; London, June 26. ' The Duke of Teck presided at a I luncheon to oversea parliamentarians at 1 the White City. He also opened tlw , press section of the exhibition in the . presence of the Duke of Argyll, Sir . Harry Lawson, and Sir William HallJones. [ HEAVY RAINS IN CANADA. B . Vancouver, June 26. Frequent rains on the prairies have been the cause of a phenomenal growth of wheat. Heavy storms are raging. RAILWAY COLLISION. New York, June 23. a An incoming express at Los Angeles u collided with an inter-urban car, injuring more than a score of people, some fatally.