GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8098, 1 May 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ALLEGED MUTINY. London, April 2D. Alfredo Barnes, a Sydneyite, and boatswain's mate of the barque Dumfermline, was charged at Belfast with firing at the captain, Dan Baillie, who alleges that Barnes headed a mutiny while rounding the Horn. The ease was adjourned.

MAY DAY IN FRANCE. [ t Pabis, April 21). • There is extraordinary uneasiness in Paris at the approach of May Day. A considerable number of nervous people are removing their valuables to the country. Police precautions have been increased owing to a determined attempt to blow up a railway bridge at Argentine. The attempt was a comparative failure, owing to the exposure of the dynamite to the air.

The Clemenceau has ordered many domiciliary visits. The Opposition press treats tho suggested plot as a political burlesque, arranged in view of the elections.

BAD WEATHER. Sydney, April 30. The boisterous weather conditions have abated. Most of the vessels arriving report rough experiences. The gale was particularly severe in the neighbourhood of Gabo. The Wakatipu, bouni for Launcesto'n, had fifty hours of it. The decks were swept by heavy seas, and some of the deck fittings away. The cabin was flooded. M. Mahinabua took scventy-tw hours between Hobart and Strathau, ordinarily a twunly-hourtrip. Tlie Whangape, from Picton, covered forty-nine miles in (wenty-four hours, and received no damage. Hoiiakt, April 30. Owing to continued rains the Mount Lyell railway between Queeustown and Lyehford remains unrepaired. Seventeen and a-lialf inches of rain has fallen in Queenstown this month. It is still raining. • APPLES. Hobabt, April 30. The apple season has practically closed. Two hundred and sixty-two thousand eases were shipped to England, being 101,000 cases less than last season. A FAMOUS ACTRESS. London, April 29. Miss Ellen Terry's jubilee was celebrated with extraordinary enthusiasm. She received great ovations at His Majesty's, the Adelphi, and Conrt Theatres. A BOY KILLED. JttELBOUESJE, April 30. A boy named Vaughan, aged fifteen years, constructed ail acetylene gas generator out of two oil drums, and was killed by an explosion of the apparatus.