GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

CAPTAIN'S CERTIFICATE SUS- " TENDED. Received 29th, 1.7 a.m. Perth, March 28. Captain Thorpe's certificate was suspended for three months for careless navigation of the steamer Mildura. TRAINING AUSTRALIAN BLUEJACKETS. Received 2»th, 1.7 a.m. v Sydney, March 28. Arrangements liave been made by Admiral Fawkes to send a party of Australian bluejackets for training in naval schools. ' THE TSINAN REFOATED. Received 29th, 1.7 a.m. Brisbane, March 28. The stranded steamer Tsinan has been refloated. THE SUEVIC WRECK. London, March 29. Received 30th 1.17 a.m. A heavy swell caused a suspension of operations at the Suevic wreck. All tne salvage steamers, except one, put to sea. Dynamite explosions strained the ship. Experts regard her audition as critical A BUSH FATALITY. Received 30th, 1.17 a.m. Melbourne, March 29. Wliile a farmer named Harrison, of South Merloo, was driving his sister-in-law, Miss Stone, a burning tree fell across the buggy, killing both. A MURDERER'S SENTENCE. Received 30th, 1.17 a.m. Genoa, March 29. Bontieff was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and 20 years' expulsion from Switzerland for the murder of M. Muller at Interlaken in September last. The murdered man was mistaken for M. Durnovo, an ex-Russian Minister. PRAISE FOR ALCOHOL. Received 30th, 1.17 a.m. London, March 29. Sixteen medical men, including McCall Anderson, Medical Professor at Glasgow University, and Halliburton, Professor of Physiology at King's College, published a manifest in the "Liucet," declaring that in disease alcohol is a. rapid and trustworthy restorative. Its moderate use as an article of diet is usually beneficial to adults, especially women. THAW'S SANITY. Received 30th, 12.27 a.m. New Y'ork. March 29. The Lunacy Commisisoners interrogated Thaw for two hours. FRENCH NAVY. Received 30th, 12.27 a.m. Paris, March 29. Admiral Bienaimc severely attacked the French naval administration, declaring that the navy was in a state of disorganisation, mainly owing to the in competence of the hrtMs of Government departments. M. Thomson protested against pessimism. The Chamber ap pointed a committee to investigate tin state of the navy. SYDNEY SIN »\V. Received 30th, 1.31 a.m. Sydney. .March 29. In glorious weather. 07,000 people wer. present at the Agricultural Show. THE PLAGUE. Received 30th 1.17 a.m. Sydney, March A man has died at Waterloo froi I'lague. DEFYING THE LAW. Received 29th, 9.38 a.m. • Jxindon, March 2S. A bookmaker at Liverpool, o-oapin from the police, loosed a bulldog v.itin a house, and took refuge in a chimney. FRENCH PUBLIC MEETING LAW Received 29tb, 9.51 p.m. Paris. March 28. The French Chamber of Deputi ftdopte.l a Bill to siipprc-s noliiicath of public meetings as voted by tl Senate.

EARTHQUAKES AT JAMAICA. Kingston, March 2«. Five short -harp shocks of earthquake were feit at Kiiur-ton. AilY CASTI.KS -STARItINC " IX CKIIMAXV. Received 2!Mi. n.ol a.m. Berlin. March 28. The Cologne Opera House lias lieen engWed by Amy Castles for the produc'*'4*"S 2 f " F »<mV "H»mlet, M and "Rumco