GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

.NAVY .MOBILISATION. l l y Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, July 15. As a (e.-t of mobilisation the naval re-i'.i-rve of Ki.ooo has been mustered. There are 493 ships ia home waters fully commisvioned, of which 2Hi will br assembled for t.l'.e Spithcad review. CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC. J -J - Loudon, July 15. There are 15(1 applicant-, from PrjUiin, Germany, France, Italy, and America for the directorship of the New South Wales Conservatoire of Music. Sir Hubert l'ary, Sir Alexander MacKen/.ie (London), and Mr. Ronald Elgar and Sir llenry Wood will considcr'tiie applications .and each Select three, from whom Mr. Carmichael, who is now a!: Home, will make a linai selecUo:.. MELBOURNE UOCK.S. Melbourne, July lfi. A scheme for 111" consti'in tiou of fo:ti' docks, involving an expenditure or m iv.'dions, has been approved by the il arbor Trust. WKSLEYAN t'nXl KUFNt F. London, .Inly I.'i, T'lc Wcsleyan Conference has opened at I'.cds limicr I lie presidency •»»' the i!ev. Hinsdale Yonng. IP-SEN'S "OIInSTS" ST At.Fl). Times and Sydney Sua Services. London, duly 15. 'Pile first licensed performance of Ib--an's "iilinsts" at the Jlaymark"t Theairc .-tills appals, hut. (lie advance oi public opinion, no longer SMOTHERED l!Y SAND. New York, duiy 15. At Iron River, .Michigan, sliding sand can ed a cave in the Balkan mine. Seven men are dead. The miners were drill■ng into the roof when the ipuivk-sand •truck the miners, who dashed for the outlets. Seven were overtaken and -.mothered by . nd. which lilletl overv Cveviee throughout the mine.