GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 10 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SENTRY SHOT. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright Received August 9, 8.30 p.m. Berlin, August 9. Three men approached the sentry at the Potsdam powder magazine and, b'.ing challenged, shot the sentry in tha arm and fled.

A SMART SCHOONER. Received August 9, 8.30 p.m. London, August 9. The Herreshoff schooner, after her victories at Cawes, won the International Gold Cup at Ryde, the Meteor and Germania finishing miles astern.

BRITISH TRADE. London, August 8. Imports for the 'month show a decrease of £932,031; exports an increase of £2,900,937, chiefly iron, steel, wool and cotton manufactures. Received August 9, 6.50 p.m. London, August 9. British re-exports for July increased by £847,364, as compared with the previous July. RECORD YEAR FOR U.S.A. Received August 9, 9.20 p.m. New York, August 9. The United States' receipts for the year were £135,770,163 sterling, and the expenditure £131,727,385, establishing a record. CHIEF OF POLICE ENDS HIS LIFE. Rome, August 8. Cesar Ballanti, Chief of Police, has committed suicide. He recently arrested- forty members of the Camorra Society.

FIRE IN CANADA. Ottawa, August 8. •A Are destroyed nineteen shops at Cochrane, in Canada, causing damage estimated at £30,000. FUNERALS OF NAVAL VETERANS. London, August 8. The Admiralty has decided! to grant naval veterans full funeral honors. (EXCLUDING APACHES. Paris, August 8. The French Minister of Marine has adopted measures to exclude apaches from the navy. BANANA TREES UPROOTED. New York, August S._ lA hurricane in Costa Rica uprooted a milliop. banana trees. SEDITION IN EGYPT. Cairo, August 8. OEI Ghayate, charged with having published seditious poems, inciting to murder, has heen sentenced to a year's hard labor.