GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 82, 23 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE COST OF LIVING. liy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 22, 11.15 p.m. Capetown, August 22. The Buluwayo Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution that the abnormal cost of living is due to the tariff and the high transit charges. It expressed the opinion that it was in Rhodesia's interests to demand a withdrawal of the Customs Convention. PEACE IN TIBET. Calcutta. August. 22. News ha* reached Gyantze that peace lias been concluded at Lbassa. and all the Chinese troops will quit Tibet. THE RUSSO-FRENCH ALLIANCE. Paris, August 22. M. Poincaire has returned from Russia. He received an ovation. He declared that the alliance between Russia and France had increased in vigor, while the friendliness with Britain had broadened as its effect. There was nothing aggressive in the peaceful grouping of the entente. A DESTRUCTIVE STORM. Paris, August 22. A violent storm did much damage in the villages in the Sciaux-Villelonge department. Isere has been entirely destroyed by an avalanche. GERMANY'S DIRIGIBLES. Berlin, August 22. . The Tnglisehe Rundschau frankly declares that the best of Germany's dirigibles was ineffective against the attacks of ewifter aeroplanes. A CAPTATN CENSURED. Melbourne, August 22. The Court found that the wreck of the G. W. Wolff was caused by the improper and unskilful navigation of the master. Captain Thomas.