GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 205, 4 October 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE. Oy Cable.—Press Auo iation.—Copynghi Paris, October 1. A sensational suicide was committed in Paris by a girl after quarrelling will her sweetheart, a liontamer at the Theatre Moncey. She infuriated the linns with a whip and then thrust the upper part of her hotly through the liars of their cage. WHAT'S IN A NAME! London, October 1. Colonel ,T. E. B. Secley, Under-Secre-tary of Slate for the Colonies, in reply to Mr. 11. E. Lynch, suid he was aware there was an objection in .Australia to the terms "colonies" and "colonial" being applied to the Commonwealth and its component parts, but the Colonial Office in all formal communications relating to Australia uses the correct expression, " Commonwealth " or *' States."

FACILITATING DIVORCE. Lo.. on, October 1. The Law Society has passed a resolution in favor of conferring limited divorce within the reach of the poorer [ classes, modifying the hardships consequent on husbands and wives being permanently separated. SALE OF IRRIGATED LAND. Ottawa, October I. 'fiic, Canadian-Pacific, Railway Company lias sold nearly a million acres of irrigated land cast and south of Calgary to an American syndicate, which offers to purchase two million acres more when the canals and ditches are completed. A GIFT TO JAPAN. New York, October I. The sailors of the United States round-the-world fleet subscribed a gold loving cup for presentation to the Japanese navy, as a token of appreciation for the courtesies shown to them during their visit to Japan.

LIGHTING TJHE COAST OF CAPE COLONY. London, October I. The Cape Assembly, in opposition to the view of Mr. J. X. Mcrriman, Premier of Cape Colonv. recommended the erection of an additional lighthouse between Capetown and Capo Point.