GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 20, 24 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A FATAL CAPSIZE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 23, 11.5 p.m. New York, June 23. ! The survey boat Beaver capsized in . a stuiT:!. Xi;ie engineers were drowned. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.. Ottawa, June 23. A lire at Montreal destroyed a block of buildings, including a sash and blind fat-lory, Four firemen were killed and three injured. HEXLY REGATTA London, June 2:>. Tin' entries f)r the Hen'v Regatta cnuv.ilu'-c a record. Australia. Canada. , :">•! i-'iMv.'-c are represented in tile Grand Challenge, and Australia, Canada. France. Germany, Russia, Italy in the Diamond Sculls. A PEACE CENTENARY. London, June 23. A committee, including Lords Grey, Plymouth, Rothschild and Cowdray, are appealing for funds to celebrate a hundred years' peace. Similar movements | are being initiated in Canada and the United States. HONORING WASHINGTON. 1 London, June 23. A British committee proposes to place a memorial in Westminster Abbey and to purchase Sulgrase Manor, the ancestral home of the Washington family, and to found a professorship of Anglqe American history, the whole costing r £co,ooo. i STRENUOUS DEMOCRACY. ; Copenhagen, June 23. The new Radical Government refuses to wear uniforms or accept the title of Excellency. The wife of Premier Zahle, who is official parfiamentary shorthand writer earning £165 annually, will continue her work.