GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 71, 10 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

royal okock.wiiical dciety. , By Cable—Press Association Copyright. London, Augm.t S. The Argentine '(ioveninn'iil, has given the Royal (.Vograpliical XonYi,y .(.1000 towards its new 'lieaduti'url.ers in Austnila*i» with ii provisional promii-.o of £IOOO more. EPIDEMIC (IK TYl'lidll). Rome, August 8. There is an, epidemic <of typhoid in ' (Sicily, owing to polluted we Ik Twcive hundred persons Hiave been stricken in the villages of Sau (Jiovnuiii and' Ocinini ailone. BRITISH TRADK. London, August 8. For July imports increased by ,C 7,260,170 and exporU ,C7,:i7H,724. Reexports decreased by X, 1,080,050. THE CANADIAN CADKTS. ' Vancouver, August 8. A. spMi.il ■appeal is being made, to obtain 1170 dollars delicit on the tour of cadets. Captain Davy telegraphs that he needs 1500 dollars. TYPHOID JiV OTTAWA. Ottawa, August 8. There- have been over a ' thousand [Cases of typhoid in three days. Six j months ago an epidemic killed two hunjdraL Bad water is supposed to 'have I been the cause. \ THE PARA ATROCITIES. . London, August S. In compliance with the Pope'** desire, j four British members of the Franciscan Order iliavc been deputed for 'missionary work in Ututmavo. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. „ London, August 8. The motor-launch Detroit crossed from ) New York to Queenstown iu 21 days 116 hours, experiencing a stormy passage.