GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 200, 3 May 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Washington, May 1. Ine Government has commenced a suit for the dissolution of the International Harvester Company. DISCOVERY OP COAL. • London, May 1. Alter twelve years' digging a quantity of Dover coal has been sent to the London market. THE MOSQUE DYNAMITERS. Constantinople, May 1. A court martial at Ishtib sentenced four of those who participated in the dynamiting of a mosque to penal servitude for life, and 39 others to terms of imprisonment varying from a month to fifteen yiears.

TRADE IN NEW GUINEA. Berlin, May 1 Herr Noski, speaking in the Reich6tag, declared that British trade with

German New Guinea had increased more rapidly than German trade. Dr. Solf, Minister for the Colonies, replying, declined to make the colonies an arena for party politics. THE P. AND 0. COMPANY. London, May 1. The P, and 0. Steamship Company is calling up the unissued capital of £1,180,000 to improve the mail, passenger and cargo services. PUNISHMENT FOR SEDITION. CWrOj May 1. The Native Court sentenced, in his absence, Mahomed Farid Bey, the Nationalist leader, to twelve months' imprisonment for a seditious speech, and two editors to three months' imprisonment for publishing it. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS. Ottawa, May l. The Dominion Government has refused to relax the statutes in the case of two Hindoo women, wives of residents in Canada, who revisited India and returned with their wives. The deportation »f the latter has been ordered, owing to their not having complied with the regulations, which provide for a continuous passage from India to Canada. THE ANGLO-BELGIAN LOAN. Peldn, May 1. The Foreign Ministers are satisfied with the Government's explanation of the Anglo-Belgian loan, and have authorised - the resumption of the negotiations for a sixty million loan. THE WRECKED TEXAS. Constantinople, Mav 1. It is alleged that the steamer Texas, which was sunk at Smyrna, was not destroyed by a mine, but was sunk by a shell, for refusing to follow the channel, after blank shots had been fired.