GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 9 February 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

RUSSIAN POLITICS. Times—Sydney Sim Special .Received 7, !i.f> p.m. ■St. Petersburg, February 7. The papers declare tiuii M. Kokovtsod' (Premier) is resigning. The po.-t of Premier is being abolished, the eldest Minister presiding at Cabinet meetings in future. MORE IMMfGIiAXTX. Times-Sydney ,Sun Special Cables. Received 7, 5.5)1.11). London, February 7. I Fifty domestics, and a hundred nominated wives joining their husbands,, with ! sixty farm hands and their families, ' sailed hj| the Athenic for New Zealand. DEATH FROM I.'AXCKI;. j New York, February li. Rrenier, a member of the Congress, ! who had eleven tubes of radium inserted in bis shoulder for Die cure of tanner, is dead. MARCONI KXPKHIMKXTX. London, February C. ■Marconi is experimenting' with" wireless communications between aeroplanes. Messages have keen both transmitted and received. A special sound-proof helmet is Used by the operators. A PROHIBITED T.EC'Tt'liF,. Paris, February G. M. lardieu, foreign editor of Le Temps, had arranged to lecture at Strasburg on the triple entente, but the civil authorities at the last moment prohibited the lecture. PUSHING GERMAX TRADE. Berlin, February 0. . A meeting of industrial and commercial representatives, Herr ]!alliij presiding, decided to establish in Germany a company for world commerce. It purposes the co-ordination and advancing of German interests abroad. KARL GREY'S SCHEME. 'London, February 0. Canada has rejected Karl Grey's scheme for Dominion ollices on the Aldwych site. STEAMER IX COLLISION. Lisbon, February (i. Tbe-Greek steamer Oimitries sank af ter collision with the Frencli liner Luletiii, near Cape Rocca, Four of the Dimitries' crew and five of the Lutetia's rescuers are missing.

TRAXS-CONTIXENTAL RAILWAY. Melbourne, February 7. Witli a view to economy, tlie Federal Government has decided that the transcontinental railway shall be completed on tlu> contract system. Mr. Deane, en-gineer-in-chief, has resigned, for health reasons. 110T WEATHER. Sydney, February 7. The heat is intense, a temperature oi 100 degrees having been recorded in the I city. There are fierce dust storms. Adelaide reports a beat wave, with a temperature of 108 degrees.