GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 9 April 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

DISCOVERY OF IRON ORE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, April 5. A valuable discovery lias been made of a great range of iron ore in the Fort Frances district. The range extends seventy miles, and the mineral is of the highest class. Government inspection is promised. THE WEST INDIES. Ottawa, April 5. Speaking at a 'banquet of delegates to a conference to promote preferential trade with the West Indies, Mr. Borden, the Premier, said the greatest problem was closer relations Ibetween the units of the Empire. Sir Wilfrid Laurier stated that all the Canadian parties were desirous of promoting the unity of the Empire. IThe West Indian Trade Conference reported favorably for sweeping awav tariff charges between Canada and the West Indies and instituting reciprocity on a most extensive scale. The West Indian delegates (believe that a new area will foe opened for their products, and will enable them to be independent largely of the United States markets. Arrangements for a new cable and shipping communication are now pending. It is hoped that Jamaica will now enter into an agreement. Hitherto that colony has feared United States reprisals if it made a trade agreement with Canada. PERSIAN AFFAIRS. Ttheran, April 5. Great Britain insists on the arrest of j the real authors of the attack on Mr. Smart, acting-Consul, instead of scapegoats, as the condition of the withdrawal of the additional troops. | A COMFORTING PRIVILEGE. Tokio, April 5. A private Bill has 'been introduced in the Diet to permit criminals sentenced to death to commit hari-kari, TAXING CATS. London, April u. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard reports that Herr Bethmann Hollweg is studying a proposal for taxing cats in connection with the new defence burdens. CHURCH UNION. London, April 5. The Church of Scotland, in a memorandum on reunion, recognising that one of the obstacles to union lies in the exclusive recognition of the national church, declares that it is desirable to have a statutory disclaimer in regard to State recognition of the Church of Scotland. However, it will only accept union if the United tFree Church and the Government conserve the endowments for the united church. AN EPIDEMIC OF CRIME. Paris, April 5. There is an epidemic of violent crimes, which is largely due to the psychological effects of the publication of the motor bandits' exploits. AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION, London, April 5. The (Board of Trade has circularised the labor exchanges, asking for a thou*sand' unemployed to emigrate to Australia. A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Rome, April o. Two were killed and fifteen injured in an explosion of dynamite at Nobel's factory at Avigliana. A DYNAMITE SEIZURE. Constantinople, April 5. A quantity of bombs and dynamite have been seized. Tliev were intended for Russia. An Armenian has been arrested. TROUBLE IN CROATIA. Vienna, April 5. The Hungarian Government suspended: the constitutional rights of Croatia, on, the ground that the politicals desired to disturb the relations with Hungary. The Croatians retaliated 'bbj cuti over everything Hungarian. A NOVEL CRANE.

: Paris, April 6. Special -balloons at Cherbourg raised a boat weighted and sunk to represent a submarine. A 'FAITHFUL HOUND. London, April 6. Mr. P. Illingworth, member for Shipley, and his wife, children and servant escaped in their night attire from a newly-rented Elizabethan mansion in Wiltshire. The house was burned down, the roof collapsing twenty minutes after their escape. A back staircase was the only exit. 'Mr. Illingworth meanwhile rescued from an upper window a retriever, whose (barking had saved the household.