GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 206, 28 February 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NOIIWISOI AN DEFENCE. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Christiana, February 20. Hie elections will be held in April. Hie Ministry is working at hiyli pressure on a scheme of national defence. TlllO CARNEGIE TRUST. London, February 20. Since 1901 the Carnegie Trust has paid U534,J0!) to Scottish students for class fees and £4.34,000 in grants to universities. JAPANESE HIOTS. 'i'okio, February 20. _The .Japanese Diet, by 201 votes to 152, declined to censure Kechara, Home Minister, in connection with the police subduing 1 the demonstration on February 10. A MISSIONARY IN TROUBLE. ' London, February 21). The Portuguese authorities arcstell , J. pS. Bowskill, an English Baptist missionary, at San Salvador, on the Congo, iu connection with the recruiting 1 of native labor for the cocoa islands, San Thome and Principe. ANOTHER HR) LINICR. London, February 2li. Ihe White Star liner Britannic has been launched at Belfast. BASEBALL. , i _ London, February 20. lhe King was among the attendance of fifteen thousand at Chelsea to witness the American teams play fcaseba ; l. Chicago beat Giants by 5 to 4. CRUISER REFLOATED. Paris, February 2li. The French warship Waldeck-Rous-seau, which went ashore near Cannes, has been refloated. MOTOR RACING. New York, February 20. At Santa Monica, Dc Palma beat Oldfield for the Vanderbilt automobile cup. It was a hundred mile race and was won by a few seconds. A BIG BLAZE. Berlin, February - 2tl. A boiler explosion destroyed the Aniline Dye Works at Ilummelburg. The wreckage ignited, rendering rescue work difficult. Twelve bodies have been recovered, and several were severely injured. It is feared that others are the debris. MT. LYELL RETURNS. Melbourne, February 27. lhe Mount Lyell returns from January 22 to _February IS, inclusive, show that 21i,.127 tons of ore were treated l""'' gelded 530 tons of copper, 30,775 ounces of silver and (I'M ounces of gold. SUMXIiII HANGED. London, February 2(1. Sumner has been hang'ed. CENTRAL AFRICA. London, February 20. (■ermany is pressing to secure the watersheds and forests of the Kageri liver, in Uganda, and Britain is again .pressing Germany to consent to "the ('.ipe-10-Oiiro Railway.