GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14347, 18 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN PRESS. CROSS-CHANNEL TRAINS. ' The - proposal that. was made for the cars /; riage of trains across the Channel between..; Dover and Calais by means of; a ferry hasfallen through. - PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON. ■ The situation of : Prince.-' Victor Napo- ':;- leon has much improved in French:eyes ;' by the announcement of his approaching =;.' marriage with Princess Clementine of Bel-T:-gium. ■:';'' '■•■■ ', ' C > TSAR'S NEW PALACE. The Tsar's new palace in Livadia will, be built entirely of Balaclava stone, which , resembles pure amber. The; building is.= to be completed ,in . 1912.'• . •','.: ' CHINESE PRINCE IN AMERICA.; •' Elaborate preparations are being made by the Chinese in San Francisco for thereception of Prince ToaLak, who has / been commissioned by the Chinese Govern-" ment to study the /American military 6ystem. ''".»V.'■'■•' ' '-■'■'-!' ' ■•.'■''.'■ </;"'■'- : /\_ ■ ' " THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH." ■■/■[ The death is reported from Lynn, in ■ Massachussets, U.S.A., of Va' man named Tyler, the original of Longfellow's j famous = "l poem, "The Village Blacksmith," written in 1841. POLISH PROVINCES. In the Russian Duma last; week the Radicals assisted . the ■ Conservatives , to: reject the measure J providing for ; the self-j: government of the : ; Polish provinces ? that was introduced by the Premier, M. Stolypin. , - , - -,' > NOT A .WORKER'S EL DORADO. '• The British Consul-General: in New York has cautioned emigrants against assuming that the city is an El Dorado for. working : men.