GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 302, 18 June 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE DELHI CAPITAL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 10. Mr. Montague, Under-Secretary for India, states that the provisional estimate of the Indian Government of the cost of the new capita! at Delhi is £4,000,000. COLORADO RIVER FLOODS. New York, June 10. The Colorado .river is overflowing in all directions. Many villages are inundated and homes have been abandoned. Rescue boats are being sent. RECORD PRICE FOR CATTLE. New York, June 10. Cattle are selling in Chicago at the highest prices on record. BRITISH EMIGRATION. London, June 16. There were 261,809 emigrants from Britain in 1911, of whom 210,000 went !to British possessions. Those to Aus- | tralia and New Zealand increased by 30,000. ASIATICS IN AFRICA. Capetown, June 16. Mr. Fichardt gave notice of amendments to the Immigration Bill prohibiting' Asiatics. He also advocated the deportation, with compensation, of all Asiatics now in South Africa. AN OLD MASTER. Berlin, June 16. A controversy is proceeding over the purchase by the Kaiser Frederick Museum of Vandergoe's "Adoration of the Magi" for £40,000. The picture was sold by public auction at Madrid, but the Spanish Government declined to allow it to be removed. FALLING POPULATION. Berlin, June 16. Prussia and Bavaria showed a falling off of population for 1911 of over a hundred thousand. The Government is organising an inquiry into the reasons. A MOTOR ACCIDENT. Brussels, June 16. Sir Francis Younghusband has been awarded- £I4OO damages against the owner of a motor car for running over him at Spa. last year. The driver was also fined and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment. THE TSE-TSE. London, Juno 16. The Sleeping Sickness Commission has proved that the tse-tse fly, known as glossina morsitans, is the carrier of the sickness. Significance is found in the fact that while glossina palpalis is frequently limited to one region, mositano is widespread and therefore difficult to exterminate. THE BITER BIT. St. Petersburg, June 16. Koryciorz 'has been sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude for having placed bombs and incriminating letters in Kozot's house, suggesting that Ivozot was a member of the secret society at Cracow who planned the bomb outrage on 'the Kaiser's train, on November 26, 1910. A RAILWAY FATALITY. Stockholm, June 16. The night express from Malmo to 1 Stockton collided with a goods train at Malmslaett station, Linkoping, through a mistake in signalling. The sleeping carriage was wrecked and others were badly damaged. Eighteen persons were killed and 16 injured. A NEW LONDON DOCK. London, June 16. Messrs. S. Pearson and Sons have received a contract for a dock south of the Royal Albert Dock. The new dock will cost £1,400.000, and will be 4500 feet long, (10 feet wide, and 35 feet deep. It will occupy an area of 65 acres. The King will cut the first sod on July 17.