GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 382, 6 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AN APACHE FOR THE GUILLOTINE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received May li, 1.20 a.m. Paris, May 5. Liebauf, a Paris "apache" and a desperate murderer, has been sentenced to death. Liebauf was one of the worst of the maniac assassins of Paris. Armed with a knife and <a revolver, and wearing armlets studded with line steel : .spikes, he fought the arresting gendarmes furiously, killing one and maiming others. It was only after he b;»l been beaten senseless that he was captured. SIR GEORGE REID. s Received May 5, 11.35 p.m. London, (May 5. Sir G. Reid is paying a round of ambassadorial visits, including calls on Chinese, Japanese, .American, French, and Russian representatives. A CANADIAN LOAN. Received May 5, 11.35 p.m. London, May 5. A five-million Canadian 3y 3 per cent, loan at 9iy 2 has been issued in London, redeemable (in 1950. AN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. London, May 4. The newspapers welcome Signor Luzzatti's proposal for aa International Congress. They emphasise the small •beginning already made by the mutual prohibition of. white labor in the phosphorus industry and the adoption of a common policy regarding the limitation of night labor of women. MALARIA IN ZULULAND. Capetown, May 4. Malaria is raging in Eastern Zululand and causing serious mortality among the natives, who are receiving every succor from the magistrates, doctors and missionaries. A MILLIONAIRE KILLED. Berlin, May 4. Count Oriola. a member of the Reichstag, was killed in a motor accident in Berlin. He left £3.000,000.

REPROOF FROM THE KAISER. Berlin, May 4. The Kaiser, in the course of a speech in Alsace, on national and individual grounds censured students throughout Germany for their beer-drinking habits. PEARY IX'LONDON. London, May 4. Every seat has been taken at the Albert Hall for,Rear-Admiral Peary's addreßH to the Royal Geographical Society to night. A gold medal will ibe presente 1 to him and a replica to Captain Bartlett. . MR. ASQUJTH IN PORTUGAL. Lisbon, May 4. Mr. Asquith has had several conferences with the King of Portugal and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. MILITARY STUDHNTK. London, May 4. Thirty-seven British military officers, including a general and seven colonels, .'lie motoring in the district about. Metz : ,i nv-W <<>' *twh- the battle fields of '.].•; Fr—oU.;x::;n -.w.r.