GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE TEXAS HCWUCANE. A IJew York, Sept. 17k The total loss of life iu Texas, through the hurricane was '250. Scores of bodlei washed ashore were mutilated, y f ROUMANIAN OIL DEPORTS. | Received Sept. 18, 1.15 pjn. * The Hague, SApt. 16. ■ The Frankfurter (laretto states that the Roumanian Government has leased the State petroleum districts to the ' j Standard Oil Company.—Time* Bervic*. - Y.M.C.A. EMPIRE UNION. Received Sept. 18, 1.15 p.m. London, Sept. 17, ; Mr. Virgo is establishing a • British - Empire Union of the Y.M.C.A, aad ty initiating a five months' campaign to ' raise half a million sterling to NMt the war work deficiency. SALE OP GOLD. Received Sept. 18, 6.5 p.m. LohdoH, Sept. 17. At the first sale of South refined gold on the open market than wa« a good demand for trade purpouft, and gold realised 93s 0d per ounce, u compared with the official price of 77» Bd for standard, equivalent to 84s lOd for fine.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPORTED ASSASSINATION. Received Sept. 18, 8.3S pj#. ' New York, Seßi 17, "'a Unconfirmed reports from Santttgoaay that Senor Leguia, president of Ptru, tea ' been assassinated.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Awn. '£ PROFITEERING IN EGYPT, Received Sept. 18, 0.45 p.m. 1 Cairo, Sept. 16. > The profiteers assumed a defiant attl« -j tude owing to the reintroduction of the control of prices ,of necessaries. The ''. cereal merchants cancelled their wheat orders and sent back twenty wheat ships ' to Upper Egypt. Butchers are refusing to kill. In view of the prospect of a serious food shortage, the authorities' ' have postponed the new tariff for two days. / PILGRIMAGES TO MECCA. | Received Sept. 18, 0.45 pjn. ' . Cairo, Sept. 16. Pilgrimages to Mecca have reopened. r i Seventy thousand have visited'Macc#. ' jl WIRELESS TELEPHONE. \ Received Sept. 18, 0.45 p.m. * ,'i Paris, Sept. 18. ' Important wireless telephone expert , ' ments have been conducted with an apparatus invented by Captains Colin and • > Jeanne French, naval men, between stations at Corsica and Hyeret Island, a hundred miles apart. Messages of two - hundred words were, dearly heard, Mid . i a song from "La Tosca" was transmitted.