MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 230, 26 October 1903, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Per Press Association. London, October 23, Mrs Frances Day was sentenced at Exeter to six months hard labour for gross unnatural cruelty by exposing her daughter, 14 years of age, in » garden all night; also with burning and cuttiDg her flesh and other barbarities. The child, in he* evidence, said she had on oue occasion received seventy etrokaa with a carpet beater, and on another (Christmas Day of all days) was ehut up in a cupboard, her only food for the day being a piece of bread. Her hair was cut off and she was leffc naked in a yard all one winter's night. William Booby Elder, a London solicitor, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for misappropriating £2500 of client h' money. He speculated in building to the extent of a quarter of a million. The defieienoy ii £144,000, largely trust money, The Leeds express collided with a light engine and drove it into Sowerbj tunnel. A Manchester train collided with the wreckage and three persona were killed and 12 injured. London, October 84. Lord Stanley, speaking at Wert West Loughton, declared that for a decade hence there would be no reform in the army, not dating back to &e> time Mr Brodriok held the reins attw War Office. Ottawa, October 24. Hon. Sir F. W. Barden, Minister of Defence, at a banquet at Montreal, declared that the money Canadians devoted to defence should be controlled by them, and not handed to anybody, whether War Office or Admiralty. The ability to defend their own territory was the last contribution to the Empire's safety and integrity. Niw Tobk, October 24. Mr Dowie is suffering from iniotnsa and is considering the expediency of summoning a physician, The Amalg»mated Copper Company'*" properties at Montnr a hive shut down, throwing idle 15,000 wo»kfcr«.