GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9306, 23 March 1907, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

A CLAIM ADMITTED. ' I Fpkess association. 1 j (Received,' March 23, 8.52 a.m.) i PEKIN, Maircb 22. ■ China has acknowledged her obligation to compensate Britishers for losses owing to riots in Shanghai, in' 1905. A NOBLE GIFT, j — — i LONDON, March. 22. \ l'he Standard states that the Dowager Empress of Russia has given £10,000 to the Red Cross Society. The interest there- , on is to be allocated to three prizes, which will be given for the invention of the best means to relieve wounded on the battlefield and ait sea. CHESS. LONDON, March 22. • In the chess championship Laskex won 5 games and Marshall nil, while 7 were drawn. IRRIGATION IN EGYPT. ! CAIRO, March 22. The Egyptian Government adopted the proposal to heighten the Assouan dam for irrigation purposes. The- woTk will occupy six yeaTs. It is estimated that tire increased annual value of cotton crops thereby will be four millions. -