GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81883, 7 November 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A MURDERER CONFESSES. London, November 5. Albert Smith, cashier of Cook's tourist branch at Nottingham, was =lwt dead wh.le locking a safe. His assailant escaped without booty. William Sanday, petty officer in the merchant seiyice, wa s arrested, and confessed to the muider.

AN UGLY INCIDENT. London, November 5. Three hundred stokers at the Naval barracks at Portsmouth, rccnting an order .when they apparently nuaudeistood, attempted lo quit the barracks and wreck the officers' apartments. The whole force was mobilised- a guard w.th hx<d bayonets at "''- gate preventing an exit of the to'n. Tne Comm.doie heaid the grievances and pacified the nn 11, his Let terminating an ugly incident.

IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE. London, November 5. Lord Tennyson, in a letter to The I inie~, states that an Imperial (Jontcrence on Education will be held in London in 1907, under the auspices of the League of Empire, to promote schemes for reciprocal education. The colonies, will be invited to send representatives.

EXPLOSION ON A BATTLESHIP. Paris, November 5. A torpedo exploded aboard the Fiench battleship Charles Mariel at I'oulon, kill.ng ttie quartermaster and .njuring six men. AN INDISCREET AMERICAN. Berlin, November 5. Pr..t'osor Burgess, at whose ['Cure tie- Ka.ser cheeied Piesid-nt koo-c----■elt, causid gitat mdignatiun by de--ciibng MoinotiMu, 111 Hit Kaiser's pi'sence, i. antiquated and senseless, and advising foreigners to tru-t such men a=> himsei; as ambassadors ut peace and civdisat.on. Mi Burgess v.ill not be allowed to paitieiiiate in 'he American Embassy banquet 'u .November.

(At the close of a lecture delivered a! Berlin L'nivrsity la-t month by Mr Burgess, wnu is ihe first occupier of the Rooscviit chair of American H.Hory, the Kaiser called for cheeis for President Roosevelt, who lie said wa> the incarnation of all the good qualities of the ualiou.)

NOVEL .METHOD 01" SUICIDE. Berlin, November 5. A sergeant-major at the Bremen Barracks, after being disc plinaiily punished, ordered his men 10 load w.th blank cartridge. He surrepti-ti-us'y sub-tituted bail cartiidge when the rn-n weie practising, and he directed them to hre at his heart for a target. He was kilied. SUPERINTENDENT OF CHINESE MURDERED. Peking. November 5. Mr PI-?. i.,t, e.„,',,,!!., ol (_l,ine-e .11 the K'w:s" i)>.|.p M iv. "I'un-vaai. ha- boMi shot d.a.l ,1, Peking. His muid'TCi's ar> unknown. Pic-- was n.on>.i"ned n Earl S'lb'.ra's de-patch ■ -.l November Ju.h. I'jf*s.

AUSTRALIAN MIA 1 TKADK. Sycin- y. November (>. Tie- - .epr> - n'aiiw- ,a \llgv rival Ai.i.-iralian m'-.c Had, .- p.,r:!> due to oiifati-faeiory v.iig'nl- and ouali y. and uige. ixp.-.rt'-t., -o v,ofk on La-!).,-i- of that ..-.:■ -pt'-d by Xew Zealand \pi ter-.