GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 56, 15 June 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADIAN-PACIFIC RAILWAY. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright Received June 14, 5.5 p.m. Ottawa, June 13. It is announced that the Ottawa Pacific Cable Company has leased a wire from the Canadian Pacific Railway, to extend its system to Montreal. PROFESSORS' SALARIES. Received June 14, 10 p.m. | London, June 14. , j The Globe, in a sympathetic article i on the Brisbane University, comments on the liberality of the salaries of professorships, for which applications are being asked in Britain. It commends the classical .professorship of a country where utilitarian claims are generally supposed Jo be supreme. ; *ti .' u C OBITUARY. London, June 13. Vezin, actor. A BALCONY ACCIDENT. ■ Lisbon, June 13. A balcony containing 200 persons collapsed during a religious festival at Clasa, in Portugal. Four persons were killed and 32 injured. AN ORPHANAGE DESTROYED. Constantinople, June 13. Schneider's Syrian Orphanage at Jerusalem has been burned. The 400 students were absent at the time. The loss is £15,000, uninsured. WORLD'S MISSIONARY CONFERENCE. London, June 13. Four thousand invitations have been sent out for the Lord Provost's reception to-day at Edinburgh of delegates to the World's Missionary Conference. THE CHILIAN NAVY. London, June 13. Armstrong and Co., of the Elswick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, have taken a contract to build a big battleship for , »».. - ,L... WRECK OF A BARQUE. Noumea, June 14. The Tourist, a Norwegian barque, bound from Rio Grande to Surprise' Island, drifted ashore ne&d iDumbea Point, while waiting for orders. She is a total loss. The crew have reached here safely. BUTTERISOX FRAUDS. London, June 13. The case against Messrs. Coo.pmans' firm for filling New South Wales boxes with inferior butter, lias been adjourned for a week. Defendants state that they only added salt and repacked the butter in the original boxes.

THE KAISER'S INDISPOSITION. London. June 13. The Kaiser lias forwarded p. message through the German Embassy, stating that he is deeply touched by the imanv messages of sympathy from Great Britain during his recent slight indisposition. FIREMAN SAVES A TRAIN. Berne, June 13. A Swiss firemnn saved a train by withdrawing ;i dynamite cartridge from a shovelful nf coal which had been put into the firebox. His arms were burned in extracting it. He has been rewarded.