GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 50, 17 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

UNDERWRITERS' LOSSES. By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright. ! London, July 15. Underwriters have lost £5,027,000 during the last six months - through shipping casualties. THE RUBBER TRADE. London, July 15. Th-e Times emphasises the need for Britain and the United States resolutely to stimulate Peru to fulfil its obligations towards the native Indians, and points out that Brazil has already adopted the Vatican's advice to protect her Indian subjects. A SOCIALIST CANDIDATE. New York, July 15. At Providence, Rhode Island, the Socialists re-nominated Miss Helen Dougherty as a candidate for the office of Secretary of State at the forthcoming election.

THE HEAT WAVE. London, July 15. The heat wave continues in the Southern counties. THE CADEBY DISASTER. London, July 15. Mr. Bury, manager of the ■ Cadeby mine, has succumbed to his injuries. A SUFFRAGIST SENTENCED. London, July 15. Grey, the suffragist who assaulted Mr. Lloyd G'eorge, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment. • AN ALPINE FATALITY. Vienna, July 15. The bodies of two Alpine climbers which have been missing sinco Christmas have been found jaihbed in a crevasse in the Tyrolese Alps. A notebook found contains a pathetic narrative showing that lingering death from starvation took place.