GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 349, 29 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

■GERMAN DREAD.\UI"GHT BUILDING. By CabJe.—Prase Assosiation.-—Copyri<f"il Bsrliiij March 26. The Howaldt works at Kiel have contracted for the first of the three battleships of the 1910 programme. v VICTIMS OF HYDROPHOBIA. London, March 27. Two men of the Norfolk Regiment quartered at Gibraltar were .bitten by a mad dog last September, and taken to the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where one died. The other came to London apparently well, and passed a medical examination for the city police.- He became suddenly demented, and died of hydrophobia, the iirst victim of the disease in London for many years. EATING BAD FISTT.-A DREADFUL MORTALITY. St. Petersburg, March 27. One 1 hundred and fifty peasants died at Ardatoff from eating bad fish bought iff an itinerant salesman. COTTON TRADE REFORM. London, March 25. A Cotton Trade Reform Association kas been inaugurated at Manchester. Many firms have joined. A CADET'S DEATH. London, Aiarch 25. A cadet at Dartmouth College died from the effects of cyanide of potassium. His diary showed that he had been *'Xpsrimenting with the of the poisom on his syst"!ii. !'i<" viry urged that kit* naval authorities liould prevent koys b aving access to poisons. PRINCE ITO'S MURDERER. Tokio, March 25. TlJt murderer of Prince Ito w*« executed at Port Arthur to-day. PARISIAN THIEVES SENTENCED. Paris, March 25. Eighty Paris thieves were sentenced to front' two to five years' imprisonment for opening letter boxes with skeleton keys. They were arrested by detectives disguised as "apaches*." "CRUELTY TO SEND IMMIGRANTS." London, March 25. The Times' Sydney correspondent cites instances of married emigrant# ! being denied employment because they s were encumbered with children. Flo I concluded that until New Soutk Wales farmers and squatters mend their ways "it is a crneltv to send immigrants with voting children to Australia, or married couples not past child-bearing.