GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 107, 13 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WELLINGTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. By Cable.—Piev< Association.—Copyright Welington, Last Night. The subscriptions to the Mayoress's fund for the erection of a children's hospital now amount to £3!)20. . PTOMAINE POISONING. Received August 12, 9.20 p.m. London, August 12. Fifty cases of ptomaine poisoning are reported from Wrexham, through eating pork pies. Several of the cases are expected to prove fatal. T NEW CARGO SERVICE. Received August 12, 10 p.m. •London, August 12.

The Union Castle Line has arranged a monthly passenger cargo service to South Africa, via. Naples, Suez and Mombassa. ARTILLERISTS PRACTISING ON ' BALLOONS. Received August 12, 10 p.m. Berlin, August 12. The German artillery in the Baltic liberated two balloons at sea, and destroyed both at a great height, a shell igniting one immediately. CATHOLICS RELEASED. Madrid, August 11. Nineteen priests and 152 Catholics arrested at San Sebastion have been released. HURRICANE IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, August 11. A hurricane at Pereslav, in, Southern Russia, razed thirteen windmills and killed five persons. Twenty-seven houses were struck iby lightning, and altogether damage was inflicted to the extent of £4oyooo. THE BARONESS VAUGHAN. Paris, August 11. French papers announce that Baroness Vaughan, who was associated with the late King of the Belgians, is about to marry a wealthy Frenchman, Emanuel Durieux. THE SAYONARA CUP. London, August 11. The Yaeht Racing Association has decided that, on time allowance, the Culwalla is entitled to the Sayonara Cup. A LIEUTENANT COURTMARTMLLED. | London, August 11. | Lieutenant Allan Sutton, of the Royal Artillery, has been court-martialled for publishing a pamphlet criticising irreguarities in the army. FIGHTING CENTRAL AMERICANS. 'N"w York, August 11. The Guatemalans captured Generals Bonilla and Christmas and sixty men off the coast. RESTORED,TO SANITY. Berlin, August 11. Professor Eulenberg, Iby daily hypnotising Frau Sehonebeck Weber, has practically restored her sanity. BANK REORGANISATION. London, August 11. Meetings of shareholders of the Melbourne Trust Company unanimously authorised 1 a conditional agreement for the purchase of the Mercantile Bank. A meeting of the latter confirmed the sale. WILL OF.STRi GEORGE NEWNES. . , London, August 11. The will of the late Sir George Newnes contained only twenty-four words. His i estate has been sworn at £174,153. EXPLOSION IN A FORT. 1 London, August 11.

By an explosion of powder in a fort at Spithead a sergeant of artillery was killed and three others seriously injured. GERMAN STUDENTS IN ENGLAND. London, August 11. Sixty German students are engaged in an educational tour through England. A similar tour through Germany will be made next year by English" students. EX-EMPRESS! EUGENE. • i Paris, August 11. The ex-EmpTess Eugenie, mixing incognito wM sightseers, revisited Compiegne, mjEeJii was the favorite residence of he* EnsJsana anS. herself in the days of tfifl !aSt empire. She viewed the pictures in the rooms the Prince Imperial *sed to occupy, and was deeply affected.