GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 255, 5 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

WRESTLING. By Cable—Press Association—'Copyright. New York, January 3. Zybsco defeated Lennn, the Swiss wrestler, at Buffalo, by two straight falls. A PRISON REFORM. London, January 3. The Home Office has requested the International Correspondence Schools to teach selected inmates of Borstal institutions with a view of testing the tuition of convicts by means of correspondence. THE CLAPHAM MURDER. London, January 3. Investigations regarding the movements of the man Beron, who was found stabbed to death on Clapham Common, show that a man believed to be Beron was driven with a foreigner and an English woman towards Clapham. A dispute arose as to the fare, Beron ultimately paying.

RELIEF FUND. London, January 3. The Bolton relief fund has reached £78,000. JAPANESE COMMERCE. London, January 3. Sir Edward Grey's negotiations regarding the Japanese tariff are proceeding favorably. TOjaiO, January 3. The exports from Japan in 1910 were valued at £45,600,006, and the imports at £40,500,000. AMERICAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. New York, January 3. Six persons were killed in a train wreck on the Miller Creek railroad, Kentucky, owing to a collision between a passenger train and some cool cars. The latter accidentally broke loose from another train.

' COAL FOR ITALY. Rome, January 3. The Government merely proposes a subsidy of £I2OO to Italian shipowners and a transporting rate of 7s per ton on 700,000 tons of South Wales coal annually, being one : tenth of the coal import from Britain. [The Italian Chamber was reported on December 20 to be discussing the question of a subsidy to an Italian shipping firm for the transport of coal, owing to the fact that £4,000,000 a year was going to British shippers.]

THE UNWRITTEN LAW. New York, January 3. Mrs. V. C. Herold has been acquitted on a charge of having shot a kidnapper at Tacoma.