GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 1 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

ALL-BRITISH CABLE. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, November 29. A meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce, after Mr. Bright, the Commonwealth engineer, had read a paper on the Atlantic cablo position, passed a resolution urging the Government to co-operate with the dominions in the establishment of an all-British transAtlantic cablo connecting with the Pacific.

COMPULSORY CREEK. London, Xovemberf '2O. Convocation at Oxford University refused to allow mathematical and science honors mem to offer alternatives for Latin and Greek. RUSSIAN INSURANCE FRAUDS. St. Petersburg, November 2!). Popl.ivsky, a notorious criminal, secured' 100.000 roubles by insuring himself in false names. Afterwards he got control of dying patients in hospitals and altered their names to suit the policies.

FRENCH EXPLORERS SAFE. Paris. November 20. Advices from Ningyuanfu how that Legendre and Dossirier, the explorers, who were supposed to have been murdered in Hunan, were only slightly wounded. A MISSING VESSEL. London, November 20. The overdue barque Sohvay has been posted as missing. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. London, November 20. A statement of claim has been lodged in the case Marconi Company v. the Telefunken Company. JAPANESE FINANCES. London, November 20. Mr. Mori, the Japanese financial commissioner in London, says that Japan intends to maintain a sinking fund, ner financial standing is really stronger than in 1010, and the country's prosperity greater. THE FARM MURDER. London, November 20. It appears that Cooper, who is twentysix years old. was recently superseded by Jackson as Mr. Sanger's personal attendant. Austin was not seriously injured.