GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 220, 22 October 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN AEROPLANE RECORD. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 21, 9.15 p.m. London, October 10. Farmaii, at Blackpool, covered 47'/j miles in !)2min, beating Lieut. Cody's English record. AN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. London, Octolwr 20. A British expedition, tinder Mr. Walter (ioodfellow, the well-known traveller, to Dutch New Guinea has been organised to commemorate the jubilee of the Orthologists' I'nion. It starts to-morrow. Dr. Eric Marshall accompanies the expedition. BESSES O' TH' BARN. Umdoii, October 20. The Besses o' th' Barn Band is starting for South Africa, From Isouth Africa it will proceed to Australia. A BOMB-IIAKER ARRESTED. London, October 20. Dr. Martin Ekenburg, a chemical sci-entist,-well known in the Swedish colony in London, was remanded at Bow Street on a charge of sending bombs to Hammarjolioliu, RUSSIAN' POLICE SPY MURDERED. St. Petersburg, October 20. A police spy named Fedoroff, of St. Petersburg, who wormed himself into the confidence of the Revolutionists, das been murdered for treachery. TYPHOON AT HONGKONG. Pekin, October 20. Thirteen vessels, mostly small craft, ;vere wrecked by a typhoon at Hongkong. ..STATUE OF TENNYSON. London. October 20. Thornycroft's memorial statue of Tennyson -was unveiled at Trinity College, Cambridge.