GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 27 July 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

TROUBLESOME TRIBESMEN. d By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. BUSHIRE, July 26. d Owing to the attitude of Kaishgai -. tribesmen, 40 Sepoys with a maxim c landed at Bushire, on the Persian Gulf, i, to reinforce the British guard at Shiif raz. THE PRESS CONFERENCE. LONDON. July 26. Lord Rosebery has contributed a remarkable preface to the permanent record of the Press Conference, emphasising the salient features of the Conference, especially from the standpoint of Imperial aspirations. J CYCLING RECORDS. i (Received July 27, 8.45 a.m.) ; LONDON, July 26. * Leon Meredith cycled* ten miles at Birmingham in 16min z4sec, beating the records from the second mile. COSTA RICA. \ LONDON, July 20. The Times New York correspondent ' reports that, subject to confirmation by '. the Cos>ta Rican Congress, an agree- . meut has been signed whereby the Na- [ tional City Bank, a Standard Oil Trust . institution, assumes control of Co6ta . Rica's finances in return for a loan of , tli roe millions sterling. [According to Hazel's, Costa Rica, the southernmost Republic of Central America, is governed by a president elected lor four years, and a chamber of 32 representatives, elected for four years by the "respectable" inhabitants, half retiring every two years. Its foreign debt in 1885 was reduced to £2,000,000, whilst the interest in arrear to. October, 1907, was £85,000.] RUSSIAN DISTURBANCES. (Received July 27, 8.4.3 a.m.) MARIUPOL, July 26. Tin- trial of fil persons concerned in the anti-Jew ish pogroms in 11K)5 at Mariupol, i» the Government ot Ekaterinoslav, Russia, has concluded. Sixteen received sentences to periods varying fioni four days' to a month's imprisonmeut. The rest were acquitted. COLONIAL SAILORS. (deceived July 27, 8.45 ri.m.) LONDON, July 2(J. Tho Australasian navy men were brought from Portsmouth to London and entei tinned at luncheon by the Admiralty.