GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 307, 5 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CHRISTENING AUSTRALIA'S FIRST DESTROYER. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright Received February 4, 9.30 p.m. London, February 4. Mrs. Asquith, wife of the Premier, on HVednesday christens the first Australian destroyer Parramatta. The Premier has been invited to be present, but it is probable business will prevent bis acceptance of the invitation. MONTREAL CIVIC ELECTIONS. •' Ottawa, February 3. Mr. Gserin, Reform candidate for the Montreal Mayoralty, was' elected T»y | 60,000 majority. Out of 23 aldermea | hrentioned in Judge Cameron's report repealing civic corruption, 22 were defeatin the election for the Board of Coil-! trol. . r -~r } A DUKE'S PETITION. Brussels, February 3. j The Duke Guenther of Schleswig Hoi- ? fctein is petitioning the Brussels Courts to appoint a judicial family council to tadminister the affairs of his mother-in-iaw, Princess Louis'e, who, he alleges, >s textravagant and weak-minded. DISCOVERY OF BUDDHIST SCROLLS. Pekin, February 3. A Japanese explorer in Chinese TurIkestan diseovcrde thirty Buddhist scrolls ■dating from the second to the seventh centuries. AN UNRELIABLE CORRESPONDENT. London, February 3. Fred Horner, ex-member of Parliament for North Lambeth, was committed for trial on a charge of telegraphing to the Mail, under local correspondence, false news respecting Mr. Lloyd-George's hostile reception at Falmouth, cabled lon January 10. PREHISTORIC SAURIANS. Berlin, February 3. The University Palaeontologieal Ex- <■(-. lition has discovered remains of prehistoric aaurians in German South 'Africa. One thigh bone measured 82 iiiehfv;. compared with the 59 inches of t' e diplodocus in Mr. Carnegie's collection.