GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 22 August 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A FIREBRAjND FINED. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. London, August 20. Pastor Boal, a Protestant lecturer, was fined £lO or sixty days' imprisonment for preaching in a way calculated to cause a breach of the peace at Motherwell, thereby provoking Roman Catholic and Socialist members of the audience.

EXPLOSION! AT MANOEUVRES. Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. London, August 20. During manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain a high.wind deflected a howitzer gun Wast to cartridges in a- neighboring waggon, causing an explosion. Two gunners were badly 'burned.

•ABOLISHING OF SECOND-CLASS TRAVELLING. Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. London, August 20. The Great Western Railway is abolishing second-class travelling between [London andi the suburbs at the end of ■the month.

SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIAL TO KING iBDWiARD. Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, August 20. The South African Mayors are formulating a sdieme for a memorial to King Edward.

COTTON. MILLS SHORT OF WORK. Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. (New York, August 20. The cotton mills in (New England employing 50,000 hands, have given notice of further curtailment of work.

NARROW ESCAPE OF SHOP GIRLS. [Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. Itcmdon, August 20. •A fire destroyed Morley and 'Lanceley's milliner's shop at Brixton. The girl employees who were sleeping on the premises rushed into the street in their nightgowns, ,andi lost all their clothing. The damage is estimated at £40,000.

PACIFIC CABLE BOARD. Received. August 21, 5.5 p.m. London, August 20. The Pacific Cable Board reports that the -receipts during the past year were £1 1'1,723, and the credit balance £17,950, leaving £59,558 payable by the governments interested. Press telegrams showed an increase of 30,878 words.

MONTENEGRAN CELEBRATIONS [Received August 21, 5.5 p.m. ißome, August 2f,. It is expected that Queen Helena will attend the Cettinje rejoicings in connection with the proclamation of Montenegro as a kingdom, with King Emanuel.