GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 97, 2 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A PEER'S SiUDDEN END. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received August 2, 1.50 a.m. Lrndon, August 1. Lord Decies was *■ zed with a paralytic stroke at Ale: ,ndra Park races, and died hi the hospital. GRAND TRUNK DISPUTE. Received August I, 1.50 a.m. Ottawa, August 1. The Granfc Trunk Railroad Company are prepared to raise the wages of the railwaymen by 15 per cent. A settlement is probable. VICTORY FOR SOCIALISTS. Received August 1,11.30 p.m.' Berlin, August I. A by-election for the Reichstag, at Stuttgart, which hitherto returned a National Liberal, elected a Socialist by an unprecedented majority. This is the seventh successive Socialist victory at by-elections. :GUN AND ARMOR TESTING RANGE'. Received August 1, 5.5 p.m. London, August 1. John Brown and Son, of the Sheffield and Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, are constructing! a gun and armor-testing range at the estuary of the Wash. Projectiles will be fired into soft sand and recovered at low tide. SWIMMING THE CHANNEL. Received August 1, 5.5 p.m. London, August 1. Wolfe swam twelve miles in an endeavour to cross the English Channel. Wind and the swell compelled him to abandon the effo:rt. GRAVEDIGGERS' STRIKE. Paris, July 31. Sappers, guarded by police, are digging graves' in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, owing to a trade dispute between gnavediggers and undertakers. THE TERRITORIALS. 'London, July 31. Thirty thousand territorials are camped on Salisbury Plains. A LOVE QUARREL. London, July 31. Bennett, an engineer, seriously wounded, with a revolver, Maggie LawleT, musical artiste, sixteen years of age, in the Mall at Hammersmith. The man then committed suicide. The cause of the crime was a love quarrel. RACIAL RIOTS. New York, July J" Twenty negroes were killed in racial riots at Anderson, Texas. Troops were sent to restore order.