GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW MINERS' LAMP. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 16, 0.10 p.m. London, August 16. The first prize of £6OO in the Hom« Ollice competition for a miners' electric lump has been awarded to F. Farber, Dortmund. Eight English and foreign iirms were each awarded £SO. ESPIONAGE. Received 10, 10.30 p.m. 'London, August; 16. George Quetalet has been arrested at Galway for espionage. A number vl documents were seized in Quetttlut'a rooms, overlooking the Renmore barracks. JUSTIN MCCARTHY'S DAUGHTER. London, Augiut 16. Mr. Justin McCarthy's daughter has been given a civil list pension of £7O a year. BREWERY TAXES. Received 17. 12.30 a.m. London, August 10. Mr. White-bread, the brewer, in recommending a dividend of V/ s per cent, on ordinary shares, declared that he paid £387.460 beer duty and other tuxes in a year. THE SYDNEY FIRE. Sydney. August 16. The damage at yesterday's fire in the biscuit factory is estimated at £3OOO. SHOWS ON GOOD FRIDAY. Received 10, 10.20 p.m. Sydney, August 16. At the Anglican Synod i resol'iti-m was passed against the holding of t!>e Royal Agricultural .Society's show on Good Friday. Sir Francis Sutton, nirsident of the Society and a member oi the Bathurst Synod, has resigned from tin: Synod. lIISroVJCAL MEMO'IIAL GALLERY. Riceived iO, 11>.2;j p.m. Melbourne, August 10. The scheme adopted by the Federal Par'sainentary Committee for a historic, n-emorial gallery provides for a start being made with Sir Henry Parkcs. Eight een names are included on the list, including those of Sir Edmund Barton, Sir Geo. Reid, Messrs. Kingston. Deakin. J. C. Watson. Fisher, Lord Dudley. Lord Dcnman, and Lord Linlithgow. The size of the portraits is to be 150 inches for half or three-quarter pictures, 120 inches for bust, and 130 inches for replicas of existing portraits.