GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 397, 13 June 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Eondon, June 10. Two ladies, intending a double descent, at Eongton, Staffordshire, on parachutes, became entangled in the cording of the balloon. One extricated herself from her parachute, at an of 11,000 feet, and made a flying leap for her companion. Both descended safely in one parachute. Brisbane, June 10. Obituary—Eaurence Tobin, at the age of 109. Eondon, June 10. The Kingston valve forming the blow-off pipe of the marine engine was blown off the battleship Irresistible while she was lying in Portland Roads. The vessel began to fill rapidly, and listed dangerously to starboard, the engines being submerged. The big guns were trained to restore an even keel, and tfie Channel Fleet sent divers to assist in placing collision mats in position. Another account states that the valves used in flooding the magazines refused to close after testing exercise. Berlin, June 10. The Kaiserin was thrown from her horse while riding with the Kaiser at Potsdam. She was bruised, but the injuries are not serious. Hong Kong, June xo.

The British steamer Pow An, bound from Hong- Kong to Canton, is ashore on the coast. Eighty Chinese passengers were drowned. The European passengers and crew were saved.. Sydney, June n. Frederick D. Green, aged 28 years, has been sentenced to death for the murder of Eillian Bridge, aged 16 years, on April 14, at Allaudale, near Maitland. The jury recommends the prisoner to mercy on the ground of insanity. [The murder was a particularly brutal one, and has been previously described. Prisoner, on arrest, showed remarkable coolness. He is a son of a vigneron, for whom the deceased girl was working at Allandale.J Sydney, June 11. News from .the Bismarck Archipelago, states that three native boys, attached to a Methodist mission at B&ining, were captured by bush men and were killed and eaten.