GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 3 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

♦ FRANCE AND FOREIGN MEAT. BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH:—COPYRIGHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received November 3, 8.5 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 2. The Government proposes to admit refrigerated foreign meat on a more liberal scale, not restraining parts of the carcase to the chine, sirloin and tongue. WILL NOT BE REOPENED. Received November 3, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary of State for War), replying to Mr Croft (Unionist member for Christchurch) in the House of Commons, said the War Office had no intention of re-opening the case of Orme, the Australia~n who was imprisoned* and deported from | South Africa during the war. BATTLESHIP RENAMED. Received November 3, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, November 2. The battleship New Zealand, which it was proposed to rename Caledonia because of conflicting with New Zealand's recently launched Dreadnoght, [has been renamed the Zealandia. I | AN AMERICAN PRINCESS. i Received November 3, 8.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. At Uniontown (Pennsylvania) Miss I Gerald Fitzgerald married Prince Victor Thurn-Taxis privately. They have left to reside in Europe. i A FINANCIAL BAROMETER. Received November 3, 8.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Wall Street has recovered japidly from the recent slump caused by the! litigation against the United States Steel Corporation. The price of steel rose four points in a few minutes, an unexpectedly good quarterly report of the Steel Trust being responsible. FRANCE AND OLD POWDER. Received November 3, 11.5 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 2. 'Le Mati.n' states that already a million francs' worth of old powder h.'is been thrown into the sea but the destruction is not general owing to the inability to supply new powder. Nevertheless the officers are agitating for the destruction of all old stores. It was held that the Liberte disaster was caused by old powder. THE SAILOR KINC. Received November 3, 11.5 a.m. j LONDON, Nov. 2. There will be a great naval display at Spithead to farewell the King on l.:s departure for India. , STEEL MERCHANT PUNISHED. Received November 3, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Robert Herbert Measures, managing director of Measures Brothers, the steel merchants, whose affairs were compulsorily liquidated, has been sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for making false entries in the company's books with intent to defraud shareholders. »_ BUBONIC PLAGUE. LONDON, Nov. 2. The. recovery of the seaman attacked with plague at Shotley Naval Barracks is doubtful. He states that he cut his finger while skinning a rabbit, which was possibly infected.