GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 210, 26 August 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

QUEEN ALEXANDER. Received 25,10.40 p.m. London, August 25. Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria embarked at Dundee on a visit to Norway and Denmark. A SUBMARINE HERO. London, August 24. Groves, one of the heroes of the submarine No. AO disaster of July 15, lias not recovered his memory. However, t'he recollection of incidents of his youth is gradually returning. It is hoped that he will soon remember the circumstances surrounding the disaster. Physically he is improving. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO TKUBX. New York, August 24. Owing to flie campaign of the Kentucky "night-raiders'' who nave destroyed much valuable property of the American Tobacco Trust in retaliation against its actions in controlling tha price of tobacco, the Trust announces that its buyers will henceforth forsake Kentucky and transact business from Cincinatti. The Trust intends to concentrate its supplies at Ohio.

PRINCE MARRIES A PLEBEIAN.

London, August 24. Prince Philip Eulunberg's son, having quarrelled with his father, \re» married in London to a performer 'at a German music hall.

THE RUSSIAN NAVY. St. Petersburg, August 24. The Russian Government has accepted German designs for four large Dreadnoughts to be built at St. Petersburg. . ~-; itfl'ttifttM HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. London, August 24, Mr. W. 11. Kidston, Premier of Queensland, in acknowledging a toast in his honor at a Nationalist reception at Belfast, said the one thing which would ultimately overcome En«lish resistance to Home Rule would be the conviotion that Home Rule for Ireland was a necessary thing for Englaud.

THE FRENCH BIRTH RATE. »*< London, August 24. Renter states that the latest statistics show that the number of deaths i',;xjit\)d in 1807 in Franco waß 704,- '.:>'), and tlhc number of births 774,000. ilns is the first instance in which the death rate of any country has exceeded the birth rate,