GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 792, 15 April 1910, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By ToloEraph—Press Association—OooyrleUl RELEASED ANARCHIST FIRES AT JUDGE. (Eeo. April 11, 11.5 p.m.) f Paris, April 14. An Anarchist yesterday, released from prison in Paris, went to the Palace Justice, and fired four shots at the judge who'had sentenced him. The judge was unharmed. The Anarchist was rearrested.' MARITIME PRIZE COURT. (Rec. April 15, 0.5 a.m.) ' St. Petersburg, April 14. The Supreme Prize Court at St. Petersburg confirmed the Prize Court's decision respecting the claim of the British owners of the Hipsiajig. . IDIOT ENTITLED TO VOTE. Paris, April 14. The Frenoh Court of Cassation has decided to certify that an idiot, unless otherwise disqualified, is entitled to vote. 1 A ROOSEVELT COLLECTION FOR BRITISH MUSEUM. New York, April 13. Mr. Roosevelt is presenting the British Museum with a valuable collection of smaller African animals shot by his party on the recent hunting tour. ■ A HUNGARIAN LOAN. London, April 13. A Hungarian loan of .£4,690,000 has been subscribed threefold. UNEARNED INCREMENT OF L'AND. Berlin, April 13. The revised Unearned Increment Land Tax Bill, introduced in the German Reichstag, proposes that the Empire shall take 50 per cent, and tho local authorities 40 per cent, of the tax, the remaining 10 per cent, to cover the cost of collection by the Federal States. TUBERCULOSIS EXEMPTION. New York, April 13.' The first exemption in_ the United States law of 1907, forbidding the entry of aliens suffering from communicable diseases, has been granted in the case of, Mr. George Romanes, a son of tho founder of the Romanes Lectures at Oxford. He lis suffering from! tuberculosis, but was allowed to proceed to Colorado,, after giving a bond of .£2OO storiing to ■ observe necessary precautions, i [The first Romanes lecture was given on October 24, 1892, at Oxford University, by- the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone, on "University Life." The founder of the lectures was Mr. George John Romanes, physiologist, born. 1848, died 1894. The Romaa93 lecturer this year will' be exPresident Roosevelt.l

LADY DUDLEY. London, April 13. Lady Dudley (wife of the GovetnorGeneral of Australia), who has recovered from an operation, purposes sailing by the Orient steamer Osterley. OBITUARY. London, April 13. Sir Thomas Tancred, who was a sheepfarmer in New Zealand in his youth, was fonnd dying in Rotten Row, and succumbed later. [Our Palmerston North correspondent writes: "Sir Thomas Tancred is understood to be a brother of Mr. P. F. Tancred, of Wellington."] ' . M.P. SENTENCED FOR FORGERY. Perth, April 14. ' Hopkins, member of the Legislative Assembly for Beverley, has i'beeh sentenced to live years' imprisonment on a charge of, forging'and uttering a promissory note' , for ,£542. ' TIRE ON AN ISLAND. Melbourne, April 14. The captain of the Waipori, which has arrived here from reported that a great fire is ' sweeping over the big island in the Kent group, in Bass Straits. He saw the glare eighty miles away.