GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 126, 6 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

KING MENELIK. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received September 5, 9.40 p.m. Adisobaba, September 5. King Menelik has had a further apopletic seizure, and his condition is serious. SUCCESSFUL SKIN GRAFTING. Received September 5, 12.30 a.m. London, September 5. Douglas Bocklington, the seven-yearold son of a Cardiff tradesman was scalded while playing near a boiler. His young sisters, Madge and Dorotlty, allowed skin to be taken from their thighs, which was engrafted on the brother's arm and saved it.

EARL ROBERTS IN BERLIN. Received iSeptember G, 12.30 a.m. Berlin, September 5. Earl Roberts arrived to announce the succession# of King George, and was heartily welcomed by the Kaiser. INDIANS IN MEXICO. Received September G, 1.10 a.m. London, September 0. The British Minister in Mexico informs Sir E'. Grey that the allegations of illtreatment of the Quae tan Indians is sensational and highly colored. The Government is forced to exile thousands of Yaqui Indians from North-VV est Mexico to Yucatan, owing to their turbulence. FOREGATHERING OF MOXARCHS. Berlin,, September 4. The Taereblatt states that the Kaiser will visit ' Friedriehof, near Kronberg, in September, and it is possible that King George and the Czar will visit him there. SOCIALIST CONGRESS. Copenhagen, September 4. The Socialist Congress decided to hold the next meeting at Vienna in 1913. A MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE. Vienna, September 4. Eugene Hasselick, an eccentric Budapest'h millionaire, left £BOO,OOO to found an asylum for members of the middle class who have become destitute through no fault of their, own. He disinherited his sister and other relatives. PASSING IT ON. London, September 4. Many hotel bills include a charge of sixpence extra nightly towards payment of the license fee, which has been considerably increased by recent legislation.

A TOWN SWEPT AWAY. Vienna, September 4. Forty-eight hours' rain burst an embankment on the river Temes, in Hungary, and a great part of the town of Temesvar was destroyed. RAILWAY FATALITY., Rome, (September 4. Beneditto Grifone, a Neapolitan painter. and three companions were killed by an express while driving over a railway clossing. GERMAN CROWN PRINCE'S TOUR. Berlin, September 4. The Crown Princess will accompajiy the German. Crown Prince on a tour as far as Ceylon. THEFTS FROM LIBRARY. Rome, September 4. Professor Zaniboni has been arrested at Naples on a charge of having stolen from the National Library two hundred rare books, which he sold abroad. MOTOR FATALITIES. London, September 4. Motor busses and taxicabs van over and killed five persons in London yesterday. N.Z. HIGH COMMISSIONER. London, September 4. Sir W. Hall-Jones entertained two hundred and fifty sanitary inspectors at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition, and afterwards inspected the New Zealand court. BRITISH DESTROYERS. London, September 4. Twenty destroyers are on this year's programme, distributed among seven shipbuilding yards.