GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 115, 4 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

NEW ZEALAND GIFT-BATTLESHIP. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, November 2. Tin- battleship Now Zealand, which it was proposed to re-name Caledonia, has been re-named Zcalandia. POWDER FACTORY FIRE. Washington, November 2. Fire destroyed the Imperial Powder Company's factory. Seven girls perished in the flames. There was no explosion, and the origin of the fire is a mystery. MARRIED TO A PRINCE. New York, November 2. At Union Town, Pennsylvania, Miss Gerald Fitzgerald married Prince Victor of Thurn Taxis privately. They left to reside in Europe. THE KING'S VISIT TO INDIA. London, November 2. There will be a great naval display at Spithead to farewell the King on his departure for India on the occasion of the Indian Durbar. A CLERGYMAN LIBELLED. London, November 2. Rev. Silverster Home, M.P., has been awarded £llsO damages and costs against the newspaper "John Bull" and '-Mrs. Bull' for libels, stating that ho had blasphemously bracketed Mr. Asquith with Cod and Right in a hymn sung during a thanksgiving service after the election. DECEIVING SHAREHOLDERS. London, November 2. Robert Herbert Measures, managing director of Measures Brothers, steel merchants, whose .affairs were compulsorily liquidated, has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for making false entries in the company's books with intent to deceive shareholders. FROZEN BEEF FOR FRANCE. Paris, November 2. Tho Government proposes to admit refrigerated foreign meat on a more liberal scale, not restraining the parts of the carcase to the chine, sirloin and tongue'." THE STEEL TRUST SLUMP. New York, November 2. Wall Street has recovered rapidly. Steel Trust shares rose four points in a few minutes. The unexpectedly good quarterly report of the Steel Trust was responsible.

FIRE AT MANILA. Manila. November 2. ! A fire swept the Chinese quarter, ( and the damage is estimated at a mil- ■ lion dollars. American soldiers assisted in saving the business district. COOn TAXT-CABS TDLE. London, November 2. There are GGOfl taxi-cabs idle as the result of the disputo over the 3d for extras retained by one driver. A HUNTER'S TRAfiJ.O MISTAKE. New York, November 2. At Hay's Landing, New Jersey, Charles Xorcross. a hunter, eager to kill a supposed deer, fired, killing two other hunters and wounding two. doom in the early dawn obscured his vision.