GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 19, 17 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

SCOTTISH SMALL HOLDINGS. By Oa.ble—Press Association—Copyright, .London, July 14. Tho Government has allocated £200,000 for the purpose of small ho'oii.'gs in Scotland. The Bill lias hi thy .-to Utn a private member's Bill, but tha Government has adopted it.

PLAGUED RATS. London, July 14. The local authorities are warning the public that plagued rats have been found in Stepney. WESLEYAN FOREIGN MISSIONS. London, July 14. The Wesleyan Conference at Cardiff resolved to appeal for £250,000 for foreign missions. A VALUABLE PICTURE. London, July 14. Raeburn's picture of Lady Janet Traill has been sold at auction for £14,700. FIREWORKS FATALITY. London, July 14. During the illuminations in connection with the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Llandudno the fireworks on a boat exploded, killing two persons. IRISH SHOOTING CASE. London, July 14. Michael Glvn and Martin Moran, who were committed for trial on a charge of having murdored Sheahan, an Irish farmer who refused to vacate his holding, last February, have been released and the charge abandoned.

MORE FRENCH BATTLESHIPS. Paris, July 14. M. Delcasse proposes that twelve battleships shall be laid down before January, 1017, costing £45,000,000. He recommends that the life of battleships be considered as twenty years. THE PERSIAN CRISIS. Teheran, July 14. The return of the Premier Sipahdah has not solved the crisis. All parties in the Mejliss are co-operating to select a new Premier. This extraordinary concord is due to the influence of Morgan Shuster, the American TreasurerGeneral, who has made the deputies enthusiastic in the cause of financial reform. THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. New York, July 14. The MacNamaras' trial at Los Angeles has been set down for October 10. A CANADIAN STRIKE. Ottawa, July 14.

The Conciliation Board, reporting on its failure to settle the British Columbia and Alberta coal miners' strike, blames the tyrannical, pit bosses, and meddlesome union secretaries as responsible for the trouble. SCOTTISH GOLD MINE. London, July 14. • The Marquis of Stafford, eldest son of the Duke of Sutherland, opened the gold mining camp at Kildonan, Caithness. A number of miners arc busy for twelve hours daily under the leadership of Heath, lately of Dawson City. The gold discovered is believed to be in payable quantities. MAD WOMAN'S ACTION. Vienna, July 14. Agnes Kone. a farmer's wife, living at Gortuchach, Galicia, seized with religious frenzy, kindled a big fire, undressed. and leapt into a red-hot oven, where her husband and children found her charred body.