GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 32, 27 June 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

[ NAVAL AVIATOR KILLED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 26, 10,10 p.m. Berlin, June 26. Lieut. Schroeder, naval aviator, fell from his seaplane 150 feet into the water and was killed. INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Received 26, 10.10 p.m. Capetown, June 26. The Indian Relief Bill passed the committee of the Senate unamended. THE HILL CREST DISASTER. Received 27, 12.20 a.m. New York, June 26. The latest figures show that 189 were Tailed in the Hill Crest mining disaster. STATE FISHERIES.

Received 20, 9.10 p.ra. Sydney, June 26. Mr. David Stead has been appointed Royal Commissioner to visit England and arrange for the purchase of State trawlers. He sails on Saturday. THE FRENCH NAVY. Times and Sydney Sun Services.' Received 26, 5.45 p.m. Paris, June 26. The Naval Estimates provide for four super-Dreadnoughts by W2O. At present France possesses 'sufficient javal strength to provide for the security of transport between. Africa and France, and also to prevent Germany from obtaining oversea food supplies through Italy or Austria.

THE KAISER IN HIGH SPIRITS.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received "26, 5.45 p.m. Berlin, .nine 26.

The Kaiser, when visiting the British Dreadnoughts at Kiel, was in high spirits. He joked with everybody, and expressed his disapproval of the top hat worn by a diplomatist present. He asked the captain whether there was any swearing on British ships, and signed the visitors' book. By mutual understanding there is no thorough-going visit to either British or German battle, ships. The conning-towcrs are closed and the wireless installations are not inspectable.

THE KIEL CANAL. Berlin, June 25. The Kaiser re-opened the Kiel Canal, which has teen reconstructed at a cost of eleven millions to facilitate the passage of the largest Dreadnoughts. The British fleet saluted the Kaiser as the Hohenzollern emerged from the canal.