GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 21 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THIEVES TO BE FLOGGED. -By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. : New York, March 111. The law is being enforced at WilI mington, Delaware, under which petty thieves are punished by the lash and embezzlers imprisoned. PIAGUK IX BRAZIL. Rio De Janeiro, March 19. The authorities are alarmed at the plague epidemic. Twenty cases were reported at Porto Algere. ITALIAN ELECTORAL REFORM. Rome, March 19. There has been a defection of Radicals in connection with the electoral reform measure. Two Radical Ministers resigned and a Cabinet crisis resulted. JAP-CHINESE RIOT. Pekin, March 19. The Chinese police tried to enter the quarantine line at Fushan, killing a Japanese sentry. A crowd of Japanese then attacked the twenty police, killing and wounding many. DANGEROUS HOUSEHOLD PETS. London March 19. An outbreak of diphtheria at Oundle, Bedfordshire, was caused by the introduction of the germs into houses by eats which had eaten infected pigeons landing from France. ALLEGED SPIES. Hamburg, March 19. English commercial travellers and :-four Germans have been arrested for espionage in connection with the plans of building and battleships. .TOWN PLANNING. London, March 19. The King paid a surprise visit to Hampstead Garden suburb. He was greatly interested in the advances made in town planning. SHAM CHAMPAGNE. Paris, March 19. The non-inclusion of the Department of Aube in the delimitation of the champagne area led to the resignations of numerous municipalities. The red flag was hoisted in the majority of villages. [ln order to prevent inferior wines being sold as champagne, the French Government delimited the district where true champagne is made, and no wine grown elsewhere will be allowed to be sold as champagne.] UNDESIRABLES ARRESTED. Paris, March 11). The police'made a raid in the Montmartze quarter of Paris, and arrested I ICS undesirables, both men and women, mostly Germans. Forty-five were carrying revolvers. i THE NEW ZEALAND ARCH. j London, March 19. i Mr. Brangwyn, A.R.A., is designing New Zealand's Coronation arch. j AFTER TWENTY YEARS. New York, March 19. Andrew Toth, who was sentenced at Pittsburg to imprisonment for life on a charge of murder, has been liberated, after serving twenty years, owing to his having been proved innocent of the charge. CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY. Ottawa, March 19. It is officially stated that the Canadian North Transcontinental Railway will be completed in January, 1914, ALASKAN LAND FRAUDS. Ottawa, March 19. It is stated that the Toronto citizens who are accused before the Chicago grand jury in connection with the Alaskan 'coal lands frauds, are not contraditable, .and it is expected the case against them will be abandoned.