GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 190, 23 September 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A DESTROYER ASHORE; By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 22, 10,3(1 p.m. London, September 22. The destroyer Itchen Is ashore and badly damaged near Kirkwall. Her guns are being removed. LORD KITCHENER'S ITINERARY. Received 22, 11.20 pjn. Singapore, September 22. Lord Kitchener inspected the fortiflunions and strategical points at Singa. pore and then sailed for China.

AN INDIGENT CLAIMANT'S DEATH. London, September 21. William Tumour, an organ grinder and a claimant to the Poulett peerage, diod in the llolborn Workhouse.

H.M.S. CLIO SAFE. Loudon, September *l. The war sloop Clio, which was reported yesterday as being five days overdue at Shanghai, was seen anchored in tu Hartan Straits. AUD-UL HAMID DISGORGING. Constantinople, Sept. 21. Abd ul llamid, ex-Sultan of Turkey, has given up a second million sterling. LIGHTING THE COAST OF CAPE COLONY. Capetown, September 21. Mr. John (!. Merriman, Premier of Citpe Colony, replying to a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce, said he hesitated to increase the number 0' lights on the Cape coast, fearing that they jnight stimulate reckless navigation. lie promised to consider the question.

[ A POETS BURIAL. London, September 21. The late Mr. .Tolni Davidson's body, in accordance with his wish, was buried at sea in tile presence of his sons. The jury had returned & Verdict ot "found dead." The Hon. Herbert Gladstone, Secretary of State for the. Home Department, in reply to an application to allow the corpse to lie taken to sea, declined to approve of any course other than burial in the ordinary wnv or cremation. He refused to u.scims the legal points of tlie application.

A PAST DKSTROYER. London, September 21. The destroyer Swift, with a speed considerably ov»i the stipulated 98 knots nn hour, exceeds any other RritisJ warship liv three knots. srrriiAdK'n'Ks IXVF.IGHF.D AOAIN'NT. London, (September 21. Tlic Hon. Walter Long, Mpeaking at Trowbridge, protested against the taotiw of Hie suffragettes in resorting to tlio intolerable argument of fear and personal violence, nnd added that " Mr. .\<nu : ih is entitled to go about his business i'i pence nnd quiet like any other citizen of the Empire." (Cheers.)