GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 30, 29 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

-■II ■»! _ ~. MYSORE' MINING DISASTER. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Calcutta, July 27. By the explosion at a Mysore anine a great number of persons .were killed. Eighty bodies have been recovered and fifty men were injured. .A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. Calcutta, July 27. An expedition, numbering 200 d troops, is leaving early in October to punish the murderers of Mr. Williamson and his party, who were massacred in Assam in April. TAXI-CAB DRIVERS. London, July 27. The Taxi-Cab Commission's report suggests that the fares should remain unaltered, the drivers to have twenty per cent, of the first pound, and twenty-five per cent.' of all above; extras to belong to the drivers; and owners'to supply drivers' petrol at eightpence. AN" APPEAL DISMISSED. . London, July 27. The Appeal Court dismissed the Allardice v. Allardice appeal with costs. ; THE FEDERAL CAPITAL PLANS. London, July 27. A deputation from the Institute o( British Architects waited on Mr. Collins, representing the Commonwealth Government in England, and suggested that three or four of the assessors to adjudicate on the Federal capital designs should be nominated by various architects' societies.

THE INDIAN BUDGET. London, July 27. ■Mr. Moniagu, in delivering the Indian Budget in the House of Commons, said it was untrue that India was in a dangerous state. Lord Morley's scheme was a complete success, but the time was not yet ripe for further modifications.

SEAMEN'S STRIKE ENDED London, July 27. The seamen's and dockers' strike at Glasgow has ended-. , (,„• A UNIVERSAL CONGRESS. London, July 27. The Universal Races Congress has opened at London University, Lord Weardale presiding. Fifty branches of the human race and twenty-two governments are officially represented. Many interesting papers will be delivered. A NARROW ESCAPE. London, July 27. Prince and Princess Alexander of Teclc were out driving at Windsor when the horses bolted. The Prince sustained a cut and the coachman was injured'. THE WELSH STRIKE. London, July 27. „ A battalion of Gloucesters has been dispatched to Bristol in connection with the South Wales labor troubles. THE PACIFIC CABLE. London, July 27. A Bill has been introduced authorising the Cable Board to construct the Australian-New Zealand cable out of the reserve fund, provided that, if the reserve is thereby reduced below £IOO,OOO, the board repay the amount in 35 years at 3y 2 per cent.