GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 226, 17 September 1908, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

MISSIiNG SAILORS. London, September 15. It is reported from t\io de Janeiro that the fourteen sailors of tile British steamer Spartan Prince who wcic missing have been rescued. THE SEVEXOAIvu- MURDER. London, September la. The police have abandoned the theory that the motive for the Sevenoaks murder was plunder. racy are now searching for evidence of motives of personal revenge against Mrs. Luaril. TOWN CLERK TROUBLE. Capetown, September 15. Smith, towa clerk of Woodstock, Capetown, has been arrested on a charge of fraud in connection with the purchase of a farm by the municipality. His brother, Septimus Smith, was arrested in Australia a fortnight ago on a charge of being 'an accessory to the crime.

DINIZULU. Durban, September 15. The commissioner who will try Djnizulu will be Sir W. Smith, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal, Judge H. G. Bisholf, of the Native High Court of Natal, and Mr. H. C. Shepstone, son of the late Sir Theophilus Shepstonc. ' AMERICAN POLITICS. Now York, September 15. ' The majority obtained by the Re- , publican Party in the elections of the State of Maine was 8000—the smallest for twenty-five years. JAPANESE PIILGRIMS ROBBED. London, September 15. A report from Jiddah, on the Red Sea (the port of Mecca, the holy city of the Malhommedans), states that a ] caravan of Japanese pilgrims was attacked by Bedouins and robbed of valuables" worth £23,000.