GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 22, 20 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

BREAKING UP COMBINES. By Gable —Press Association.—Copyright Washington, July 18. A suit has been filed in the Federal Court to compel the bona fide separation of the Reading Railway and Reading Coal Company. The Government is planning a number of similar actions. ACCIDENT TO SIR GEORGE REID. London, July 18. Sir George Reid and his daughter show a slight improvement, and ore cheerful. Queen Alexandra, tine New South Wales Government, and the Lord Mayor have telegraphed >their sympathy. CANADIAN POLITICS. Ottawa, July 18. On the eve of the opening of Parliament political circles believe that the session will last six weeks and that a general election will follow. SUGAR PLANTING. Washington, July 18. Louisiana sugar planters and producers examined in the House of Representatives by the Sugar Trust Investigation Committee; asserted that a reduction of duties would ruin the domestic production of cane sugar and free sugar would annihilate the cane and beet industries.

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. London, July 18. A majority of the provincial committees of the Indian National Congress agreed to invite Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., to accept the presidency of the congTess. BLACKMAILERS SENTENCED. London, July 18. Madow was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and Lyster to eighteen months' imprisonment for blackmailing Colonel Bain, ex-member of Parliament. GERMAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Berlin, July 18. The death roll at Mullheim now totals fifteen. , EX-SHAH ENTERS PERSIA. Teheran, July 18. The ex-Shah has re-entered Persia. The number of the force accompanying him is unknown. SPIRIT WAREHOUSE ON FIRE. London, July 18. A fire do a Cardiff beer and spirits warehouse led to riots and looting, in which twenty persons, were injured. The military were summoned.