GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 336, 11 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GALES IN ENGLISH CHANNEL. By Cable. —Pi\<»3 Association.—Copyright London. Marcn The lighthouse men at the Eddystone have been relieved alter waiting a fortnight for the subsidence of gates. ACTRESS SEEKS DIVORCE. London, March 9. The Central News' New York correspondent reports ( that May Y;ohe is seeking a divorce from P. Strong at Oregon City. BUILDING SOCIETY FRAUD. London, March 9. F. C. Knight lias been sentenced .to five years' imprisonment for embezzimg £7OOO from the Barnsby Building Society. FATAL EXPLOSION. Calcutta, March 9. By an explosion at a starch factory at Noby, India, eight people were killed and seventeen injured, many fatally. NEW YACHTING TROPHY. New York, March 9. The Atlantic \acht Club has offered a 5000 dollars trophy, to be called thj President's Cup, for an international race from Europe to Sandy Hook in the summer of 1911.

' DEARTH OF JUDGES. London, March 9. Owing to a dearth of judges, Lord Halsbury is temporarily acting as president of the Court of Appeal. WESTRALIA'S PROSPECTS. London, March 9. The Globe s'ays it is extremely hopeful that the progressive statement presented by the Westralian Agricultural Conference fwiill ireirrforce 'the State's claim for increased immigration. Westralia was once the Cinderella, but is now one of the most promising of the 1 States of Australasia. AUSTRALIAN ACTRESS'S MARRIAGE. London, March 9. Miss Madge Titlieradge, daughter of 1 Mr G. S. Titlieradge, the well-known Australian actor, was married to Mr Charles Quartermaine, the actor. DESPERATE BURGLARS. London. March. 9. At Norwood throe burglars concealed j themselves in a residence and waited the return of the occupier. Mr William Taunton, aged 76. Tliev killed the liouse-dos; and brutally assaulted Taunton. The house was ransacked. The burglars were arrested.

AN EMBEZZLER PUNISHED. London, March 9. Carew Martin, actiiig-s'ecretary of the Royal Society of British Artists, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in the second division for embez- , zlement. j ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. London, -(March 9. ! Members of the British Geographical Soeietv, in an interview, deprecate Lieutenant Filehners proposed German ex- | pedition to the South Pole devoting its I energy to a region where other expditions have planned routes.