GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 8 November 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN FRANC®.

Paris, November 6. The newspaper Petit Parisien has taken a referendum on the subjeet of the suspension of capital punishment by the President. The result is that 1,412,000 protests have been received against the President's too frequent exercise of Ilia prerogative to commute death sentences, while only 328,000 supported the President's action, A RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY. London, November 6. Ruthenberg, the Russian revolutionist who trapped Father Gapon into avowing that he was a Government agent, and thereby brought about his murder, is reported to be living m Australia. MADAME MELBA. Melbourne, November 7. Madame Melba will give several concerts before leaving Auhtralia. EMPIRE RIFLE MATCH TROPHY. Sydney, November 7. The National Rifle Association has voted £25 to trine fund being raised to provide a trophy for the Empire Match. A COLD SNAP. Sydney, Noveme?.- 7. The .weather is very cold. In the Orange district many sheep havs been killed by the co'd. FRANCO-ENGLISH EXHIBITION. London, November 0. The erection of the Australian pavilion at the Franco-English Exhibitbi will cost £25,000. It«will be a fine structure, some one hundred feet high. It will be completed in March.

COMMONWEALTH OFFICES IN LONDON.

London, November 0,. Lord Elclio stated at a meeting of the London County Council that the moat recent offer made by the Commonwealth Government for a Strand site for the proposed High Commissioner's, office was £3OOO per annum lielow the official appraisement. He hoped the negotiations would be reopened, as he had every reason to believe that the Commonwealth had not made its final offer.

A DANGEROUS BUTLER. London, November 8. A man named Woolterton, formerly butler to Mr. Cory Wright, Justice of the Peace, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at the Herts Assizes for entering Mr. Wright's bedroom, brandishing a revolver, and demanding ten thousand pounds or Mr. Wright's life. Woolterton accepted ten pounds and made an appointment to receive more. When he arrived at the rendezvous ha was arrested. "■"'■'ss.4i COAL STEAMER ON FIRE. New York, November 6. The steamer Oceana, whioJiJeft/New castle (New South Wales) for"San Francisco on 4th October with a .cargo of coal, has arrived at her destination with her cargo on fire.