GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 2 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE MISSING WHALER. By Cable—Press New York May 31. The whaling steamer llurman picked Hp Captain Ba.rtlett off . the Siberian coast, where he went acros* itbe ice after liis steamer Karluk was lost. The Herman will attempt to break through ;tue ice and reach the Karluk and her jnfcirooned crew.

BULGARIANS AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH. Sofia, May 31. An official statement accuses a Parisian cinematograph operator of the reconstruction of the siege of Adriano<ple, representing tlhe Bulgarian troops by a heterogeneous mob, mostly gypsies, supported iby Servian arjtillerv, whiie the Turkish soldiers were photographed in their parade uniforms and complete equipment. Gypsies wearing veils represented Turkish women assaulted iby Bulgarians.

AMERICAN' BUSINESS LEGISLATION Washington, May SI, Representatives of the Manufacturers' Association interviewed the President urging the suspension of business, legislation by Congress, because capital was avoiding investment owing to fear of empirical laws. The President expressed the desire to assist business men; bujt said it was better to dio something moderately sobei'ly than wait until the radical forces had accumulated and they were compelled .to go much further. *

NEW SAFETY SIGNAL. London, May 31. An invention for tibe safety of life at sea provides Jot a new wireless call termed the "safety signal," to be used by wireless stations which have to transmit to vessels urgent information about icetorg, derelicts, approaching storms and other dangers, It consists oif T.T.T. repeated at short intervals' ten times at full power.

NAPOLEON'S SOLDIERS HONORED. CHiiro, May 31. Ail in«pos J ing military procession of British soldiers 'buried the remains of Napoleon's soldiers recently discovered at Alexandria.

THE AQUITANIA. j F" ' London, May 31. Immense crowds at Liverpool witnessed the Aquitania's madden voyage. NEW SOUTH WALES REVENUE. Sydney, June 1. The Neiw tfoutli Wales revenue for eleven mouthi allows an increase of £ 1,450,000. A Pl-jCULIAR ACCIDENT. Sydney, June 1.. Trains were delayed near Mudgee through a cutting catching fire. The cutting was thruugh shale, and as the result of the lire (tlhe shale is exuding; l ,gr<;at quantities of (lowing oil, which are ablaze along the erok.

A DAYLIGHT MUTEOR. Sydney, June 1. An unusual sight, a large meteorite falling and bursting in duyllight, was' vit'UMu! Narrabeen. A FIND OF MOLVBDKNITK. PeUtli, .Tune I. An important find of mol\>lKlenite is reported from the Bathhiii'st di-iricl. RENOVATING HAMPTON COURT. Times and Sydney Sun Krirvices. London, May :il. Th« renovation of the apartments at Hampton Court Palaee, where Cardinal Wo'lsey lodged, revealed oak panefling obscured by papered canvas, also two ancient-moulded doorways with tlhe original iron hooks for hanging the massive stone doors, line stone fireplaces -and beautiful ornamental ceilings, nil excellently preserved.