GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 28 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

/ THE PAPANUI EMIGRANTS. I By Cable—Press Association—Copyrigfit. 'l London. October 2fi. I Miss Jane Adam, matron in charge of | the Papanui's emigrants, reports ail well and acknowledges generous help from all the inhabitants of St. Helena and the touching self-sacrifice of the poorest inhabitants. EX-NEW ZEALAND AGENT'S ESTATE. London, October 20. The net personality in the estate of John Morrison, formerly agent in London for the New Zealand Government, before agents-general were appointed, has been proved at £87,000. C.E.M.S. ACTIVITY. London, October 20. The Church of England Men's Society is holding great meetings in London. The society showed increasing activity, and the membership throughout the world now numbers 112,000. HEAVY TAX ON CELIBATES. Berlin, October 20. The Diet 'of the Principality of Reuss has imposed on bachelors and spinsters over thirty a surtax beyond the income tax amounting to 5 per cent, on incomes between £l5O and £3OO, and 10 per cent, on those above those amounts. CANADIAN HUSTLE. Ottawa, October 2(5. A new town, called Coronation, has been established under remarkable circumstances. The Canadian Pacific Railway cut up a strip of prairie and laid out a town site. A crowd of settlers arrived by the first passenger train, and a large number of houses and shops were immediately erected and a newspaper issued. SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, October 27. A severe earth tremor, the second within three days, took place last night in many parts of the State. It was accompanied by a rumbling noise. At Moonta articles were thrown from the shelves and lights extinguished, but the damage was slight. MADAME MELBA FA REBELLED. Sydney, October 27. There was a remarkable scene of enthusiasm at the send-off to Madame Melba's company to Melbourne.