GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 5 November 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

INTEGRITY OF .NORWAY. London, November 3. As the result of a year's negotiations, a treaty guaranteeing the integrity of Norway has been signed by France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia. UNITED STATES FLEET'S CRUISE.

London, November 3. Twenty-one Glasgow steamers have been chartered to convey American coal to the American fleet in'the I'acific.

OVAL TABLE BILLIARDS. London, November 3. In.a billiard match on an oval table

at Leeds, Roberts defeated Weiss bv 7000 to 0047. ' DALGETY AND COMPANY. London, November 3. Dalgety and Co.'s annual report shows a profit of £203,123. A dividend of six per cent, is declared, and a bonus of one

per cent. A sum of £35,000 is to be added to the reserve fund; £30,000 is devoted to the writing down of the value of premises; £SOOO is added to the Staff Benevolent Fund; and £62,123 is carried forward. A DEGRADED REGIMENT.

London, November 3. Three majors and two captains of the Fifth Lancers have been placed on half pay. on the ground that the regiment is unfit for service. FATAL ARSENAL EXPLOSION.

Paris. November 3. , Through the bur-tiji s of a melinite ! s-hcll at Bourges arsenal seven artilleryj men were killed. Two others are dying I from the injuries received.

GERMAN AIRSHIP STATIONS. Berlin, November 3. Mctz and Strasburg are to be airship station* under the German War Office.

EDUCATION IN ABYSSINIA. Massowah, Noveml)or 3. Emperor Menclik has decreed that compulsory State education shall be provided for all male children over twelve years of age.

REARRESTED FOR BLACKMAIL. Paris, November 3. Veltheim (j>r Wertheini) has been again arrested at Paris at the instance of the British Government. [Frank Veltheim was arrested some time ago on a charge of levying blackmail on one .lolly Joel at Paris. VeltI lieim claims to have some knowledge of a plot against the late President Krager's life, organised by the late Barney Barnato in the Transvaal.

Arnvd with this alleged knowledge, he tried to extort money from one of the -loel family, a relative of Barnato, in Johannesburg, and. being unsuccessful, -hot him. TTe is now alleged to hav» been trying a similar -eheme of extortion on another of file Joel family. His extradition from France for trial in England was recently refused on Hie ground that there was insufficient eviI d.'tK'C]