GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 125, 14 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SOUTH AFIUCAX POLITICS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Capetown, October 11. Sir Starr Jameson is resigning his seat for Gralnunstowii, and Sir Abe Bailey will contest the seat as an independent supporter of General Botha. THE BRITISH HARVEST. London, October 11. The Times, report on British crops states -that the wheat crop is estimated at 81 (the iigure 100 representing a good average <-rop), eleven points l below the averages for the last ten years. Barley is set down at 85 and oats at 78. THE BATTLESHIP NEW ZEALAND. London, October 11. The battleship New Zealand made a successful thirty hours' steam trial. A NOBEL PRTZE WINNER. Stockholm, October 11. The Nobel prize for medicine iha3 bee* awarded to Dr. Alexis Currell, of the Rockefeller Institute, for researches and transplantation of organs. KURDISH ROBBERIES. St. Petersburg, October 11.

Owing to unparalleled Kurdish robberies and excesses at. Fida, three battalions at the Northern Caitcusus 'have been ordered to Azerbaijan to protect the Russian trade route between Tabriz and Urmasih. BUCKINGHAM PALACE. London, October 11. The Queen Victoria' Memorial .Committee is expending £6OOO on Sir Aston Webb's new exterior for Buckingham Palace. It is a classical design in Portland stone, and will be -commenced in the summer of 1913.