GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME. By Cable—'Press Association—Copyright. London, December 8. The reconstruction scheme of the North British Australasian Company proposes to write <lown capital by £lll.721, and consolidate the various issues into one stock. CONTRACT FOR WELSH COAL. London, December 8. The Admiralty has contracted for a quarter of a million tons of Welsh coal for 1912 at 14s a ton, being 6d a ton above the price given in 1910. THE QUEENSLAND MURDER. Brisbane. December 9. Silva has been committed for trial on the murder charge. A NEW STEAMER. London, December 8. The White Star Line is building an 18,000-ton steamer for the Australian service, of the improved Suevic type. VICTIMS OF FASHION. Paris. December 8. Through the use of hobble skirts 20,000 workgirls have been thrown out of work, and £BO,OOO of capital lost. GERMAN ELECTIONS. ■Berlin, December 8. The Reichstag has dissolved. The elections will be held in January. GERMAN BATTLESHIP AGROUND. Berlin, December 8. The battleship Kaiser Wilhelm 11. went aground in a fog at Flensburg fiord. The guns and ammunition must be removed before she can be refloated, WELSH CHURCH DISESTABLISHMENT. London, December 8. Rev. Silvester Horn, at the Free Church Conference at Anglesey, declared the Non-conformists regarded the Church of England as a pagan institution. He would oppose the Disestablishment Bill if the Anglicans were to retain the cathedrals.