GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 283, 27 May 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 24. Eight hundred London school children are starting for Paris to-morrow to participate in the International Musical Festival, on which £250,000 has been spent. A HANDSOME GIFT. London, May 24. Lord Iveagh has given £IO,OOO for a department of geology and mineralogy in Dublin University, HINDUS IN CANADA. Ottawa, May 24. The Government, as a special act of grace, has allowed two Hindu women to remain with their husbands, these being the first Hindu women in Canada. WIRELESS IN CANADA. Ottawa, May 24. The Government is considering a scheme to erect wireless stations in the far northern regions of Canada, and. at Ungava Bay, and also at far western points, placing all in touch with Ottawa. Exploring and surveying parties will thus be able to communicate continuously with headquarters. A DIABOLICAL PLOT.

New York, May 24. At San Diego, California, a plot has been revealed to the police whereby six armed Industrial Workers of the World (the socialist revolutionary organisation) were selected by lot to shoot down the Mayor and other civic officials of Sfcn Diego, where the Industrial Workers have been prevented from entering by physical force. Several arrests were made.