GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 234, 11 February 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A STREET ROBBERY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, February 9. A lady looking in a shop window in Edinburgh was assaulted and robbed of a pearl necklace worth £7OOO. The assailant escaped. A MAGISTRATE IMPRISONED. London, February 9. Peter Duckworth, a magistrate who impersonated a voter in Lancashire during the elections, has been sentenced to a week's imprisonment and seven years' disfranchisement. END OF THE DROUGHT. Buenos Ayres, February 9. The greatest drought for a quarter of a ceiitury has ended. In every province drenching rain is falling. THE AOTEA. Capetown, February 9. The chances of floating the Aotea are favorable. THE PERSIAN ASSASSINATION. Teheran, February 9. The assassins of Said-ed-Dowleh have been handed over to the Russian Legation. BRITISH TERRITORIALS. London, February 9. At the end of January the Territorials were 1514 officers and 44,100 men short of the full establishment. STREET-CAR FATALITY. New York, February 9. A street car at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, went through a drawbridge, three women, one child, and one man being drowned, A DESTROY'ER COMMENCES WORK. London, February 9. The destroyer Maori, in her trials at Shoeburyncss, attained a speed of 30 miles an hour. The waves caused by the destroyer swept the mate of a barge overboard, and he was drowned. SHIPONFrRE. \ London, February 9. The liner Hero, from Dunkirk, arrived at Hull with one of her holds on fire. When the fire was extinguished, the bodies of three stow ( aways, foreigners, were found. It is supposed their smoking was the cause of the fire.