GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 133, 27 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

SULTAN'S SOX DECORATED! By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Cairo. November '24. In honor of King George's visit the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order has been conferred on Zia Eddin, son of the 'Sultan. A DUTCH ORGANISATION DISSOLVED. Capetown, November 24. Tho Dutch organisation. Oran»icUnie, has been voluntarily dissolved." TIIE BRITISH NAVY. London, November 24. It is reported that two battleships of the improved Orion type have been ordered to be constructed at Glasgow and Barrow. WRECKED TOURISTS RESCUED. New York, November 24. It is announced that the Ward liner Regurancia has arrived at Nassau with tho passengers off the wrecked steamer Prinz Joachim aboard. JAPANESE DESTROYER LOST. Tokio, November i-l. The destroyer liursisam foundered at Cape Shima during a gale. Forty-five men were drowned. STORM IN THE ADRIATIC. Vienna, November 24. A sirocco has been raging in the Adriatic for three days. Shipping has been much damaged. Tho steamer Roumania has been wrecked at Rorrigno and sixty aro reported drowned. A CONVICT PARDONED. New York, November 24. Morse, the banker, who has been serving a term in a penitentiary, has been pardoned, on the ground of ill-health.

ERNEST TERAH lIOOLEY. London, November 24. Ernest Terah Hooley has been committed for trial. Bail was allowed for mitted for trial. Bail was allowed of STOLEN PICTURE RECOVERED. Rome, November 24. The police at Florence have recovered Fra Angelico's picture Madonna Delia Stella, which was stolen from the San Marco convent. CHARGES AGAINST ROCKEFELLER. New York, November 24. Mr. Rockefeller denies the charges made by Merritt Bros, regarding the Mesaba Mines, and submits a paper signed by his accusers admitting the baselessness of the charges. THE CANADIAN NAVY. Ottawa, November 24. Mr. F. D. Monk, Minister for Public Works, declares that the attacks by Sir Wilfrid Laurier on him are without foundation, as he is fully in accord with Sir F. Borden's naval policy. The French-Canadians are loyal subjects of the King, and intend to accept the verdict of the people of Canada on tho question.

SMUGGLED CHINESE. New York, November 24. A large Chinese smuggling plot has been discovered at Chicago, where 20 men are being charged with bringing Chinese wholesale into the United States. Arrests have also been made at New York and Detroit. The Chinese first entered Canada; then the syndicate smuggled them over the frontier, hidden in freight cars. Other arrests are planned.