GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 July 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

London, July 25. e The Xing tea gent a message to Par- i ttaneut signed by his own hand, reeomMBdiqg a grant of £50,000 to Earl « Oman in recognition of his eminent 1 aerri«s in Egypt. Yfctor Booth, the Oamarn pianist, bos f obtained the MacFarren Gold Medal and « at the Ro - Tal Aca * 1 Uveson end Oooke, of the toff"C&oVe, which recently failed,hare sAteneed to five years' imprison%LMßl each for misappropriating client#' > his own desire, Mr Winston Chnrwffl win pay his own cost of living and tnMport, except Government transport, 1 during his tour in British East Africa, whither he is being sent by the Home ! Government to stndy natirs questions. Bie Standard asserts that the Government has succeeded In obtaining a pattern of a short Lee-Enfield rifle wHch experts declare will be the liest b the world. Biclurd Brinkley has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mr and Mrs at Broydon, by the administratis of cyanide of potassium. Th« Drily Express reports that there b * deadlock in the business of the Cape P*Hament, nearly half the members being prostrated with influenza. Notts and Middlesex, the Counties which hare nof had a defeat, b>-ul the list- for the County Cricket Champi i,;- ] ship. Worcester and Yorkshire ha.-.-lost two matches, Surrey and Lancashire three, Es#ex four, and Kent sir. Melbourne, July if,. He admitted in the House of Representatives that (he telephone service was notoriously had throughout Australia. The Department W neither wire nor machines. This was the result of the enormous demand for telephones. The time was not far distant when every bouse would be able to have a tel"phone at the cnarge ofoue ■hflHng per week.

Adehide. Jiilv 2". flw Marine Dep-rtmenf lm« rr»i<-d • report from tie liehtho<i»-kr<"i»r en • Pencoin ItUnd, Rivnti Bat, that IK" Mud ii trembling away through (he croaton of tie em, at the rata of four taebea a month. Hmrr landslip* ire otenrrinj. Sydney, .Tnlr 2*. A mnfidmtial lmort prepared for the Premier shows that an extraordinary amount of aweatine prevail* in tV dremmaVin? and millinery b'nin<"sn>«. Sine hundred eMn rewire five shillino §■* a week or under. ITr Cdrni(h"r« inS tend* to.lesM**e to flxa minimnm wa?i> jfe for JtreraiV labor, p- Perth. .TmU- ?«. Hiomaa Teuton, a #ew Z«i lander. ' welt-known in minim? efrrles. mo fcil'ed •' . " Ihronrh hi* sulky colliding with 1 train ■/ *1 « level crossing. M 'i ,