GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 225, 21 March 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

>*-. — FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received' 20, 11.45 p.m. London, March 20. Freeman's Journal has passed to the control of the Nationalist Committee. Mr. Sexton, chairman, is retiring. EFFECTIVE PEACE MEASURES. Received 20, 11.45 p.m. / St. Petersburg, March 20. A Russian court martial at Tabriz, since the troubles there, sentenced thirty-seven mutineers to death. The Acting-Governor at Azerbaijan has also sentenced an additonal fifty. Quiet has been restored. EASTERN SHIPPING INTERESTS. Received 20, 11.45 p.m. London, March 20. Peninsulars deferred spurted- to two hundred and eighty-five on rumours that there was a general consolidation of Far Eastern shipping interests. FATAL BOMB EXPLOSION. Received 21, 12.45 a.m. Lisbon, March 20. Bombs manufactured on a barber's premises at Oporto exploded, wrecking four houses. Four people were killed and live injured. A NEW ZEALAND ESTATE. Received 20, 11.25 *p.m. Sydney, March 20. The will of the late Mrs. Ireland, of Auckland, has been passed for probate. The value of the New South Wales estate was £49,805. SLEEPERS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY. Received 20, 11.45 p.m. Melbourne,- March 20. The Minister of Home Affairs has authorised the calling of tenders for sleepers for the Transcontinental railway; 2,300,000 will -be required.