GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 98, 11 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AN INTERESTING RECORD. By C able —Press Association —Copyright. Received 10. 11.20 p.m. London, September iO. The Times has just celebrated its fortythousandth issue with a remarkable forty-four page supplement covering the history of printing. THE ARMY MANOEUVRES. Received It). 11.20 p.m. London, Septeir ")er 10. Sixty thousand men are engaged m the manoeuvres at Norfolk. Captain Loiigeroft, of a Government built Li-plane, made remarkable reconnaissances. The opposing gunners were unable to estimate his height and speed and did not attempt to lire. Ranges taken simultaneously dill'ered by 3000 yards. VIA WIRELESS. Received 10. 11.20 p.m. .Melbourne, September 10. When the Port Darwin wireless station is completed, thereby linking Australia with the Empire, by a wireless system, the Government intends charging two shillings a word for wireless cables. DEFERRED CABLES. London, September 10. Sir 11. Heaton, interviewed, said that deferred cablegrams were absurd, since the carrying capacity of the American cables was ;}25.000.000 yearly, and' only 25,000,000 were sent. The Australian cables could do sevenfold, sending 50.000.000 instead of the present 8.000,000. Vested interests alone stood in the way of penny-a-word telegrams throughout the world. GERMAN MILITARY MANOEUVRES. Berlin, .September 10. The Kaiser is vitnessing the manoeuvres of 12.").000 troops at Saxony. He is living in a portable asbestos house. A CHINESE LOAN. Pekin, September 10. The Power* are indignant at the report of a ten million sterling loan in London Hearing completion. The Government admits that TMunglisiling. former Minister of Finance, is negotiating for the loan.