GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 301, 29 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

KING EDWARD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, January 27. Under medical advice King Edward will go to Biarritz on 3rd March to escape the trying winds'. A COPPER COMBINE. New York, January 27. The Utah Copper Company and the Boston and Nevada Copv : Companies 'have now merged, invohing a total capital of £20,000,000. BOYCOTTING A TRUST. New York, January 27. Food prices in America are declining in consequence of the spread of the j public boycott of monopolies of food products. FOR THE BENEFIT OF CREDITORS. London, January 27. Mr. Yerkes' art collection, valued at I 1 £400,000, including a Persian carpet ! worth £-2.3.000. is being sold by auction I •for the benefit of his creditors. A FRENCH CHATEAU. | | Paris, January 27. j [ The French Court has ordered the ! •removal of the s'eals on the Baroness j Yaughan's chateau, the Princess Louise | of Belgium being mulcted in the costs ; .of the action. [Baroness Yanjjhaii was the morgan- j i'atic wife of the late King Leopold.] j ' GERMAN DIAMOND CONCESSIONS. \ Capetown. January 27. . The Budget Committee of the Reich- \ 'stag having ignored the petition of the ; "burgomaster of the Luderitz Bourse for an enquiry into the diamond concessions, hundreds of colonists' held a 'tone'hlight procession in honor of the •■burgomaster and the governor. TRADE TREATY REJECTED. I i I Berlin. January 27. I The Reichstag Committee by 1."! to 13 'rejected the proposal to ratify the com•mercial treaty with Portugal. AERIAL GUNS. Berlin, January 27. ! Krupps have constructed two guns for the destruction of airships, h 7 1 /; | j centimetre to be mounted on a motor- < ir-ar and a I0«/> centimetre on warships. Both fire a shell discharging a trial of luminous smoke, whereby Hie projectile's rourse can be followed. The sheila cxi pioite with gas. j