GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 28 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

WATERED MILK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, March 26. A milkman has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for having supplied watered milk to a hospital. JACK JOHNSON FINED. New York, March 20. Jack Johnson has been sentenced to twenty-five days' imprisonment for having exceeded the motor-car speed limit. INSPECTING ALIEN IMMIGRANTS. London, March 2G. The Departmental Committee recommends the establishment of a receiving house for the inspection of alien immigrants at Tilbury with a reasonable toll per head to defray expenses. ROOSEVELT ON WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. New York, March 2G. Mr. Roosevelt, addressing the students of the University of California, San Francisco, said he favored woman's suffrage. He had studied the question deeply, and did not think it important, in comparison with other questions affecting women. He summed up the ideal woman as "a good wife and another capable of rearing a large famay." ORE PLANT DESTROYED. New York, March 26. Dynamitards at Cleveland, Oregon, destroyed an ore plant, the property of the Erie Railroad. Damage was done to the extent of £40,000. The miscreants are unknown. A TRAIN DERAILED. New York, March 20. The fast train known as the Dixie Flyer plunged from a trestle bridge at Ocilla, Georgia. Seven persons were killed and twelve injured. CANADIAN TRAIN WRECKED. Ottawa, March 20. A Canadian Pacific train was wrecked at Port Arthur, Ontario. Two persons were killed, two are missing, and several were seriously injured. ] AN APACHE EXECUTED. Paris, March 26. Grand, a notorious apache, has been executed at Nantes. "ALL BRITISH" GOODS. London, March 26. Forty British towns nave imitated London's "All British" shopping week. AN ENGLISHMAN SENTENCED. Paris, March 26. An Englishman calling himself Hamilton Crisp has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for having attacked and attempted to rob the bearer oi some jewels worth £BOO which were ■ent to a hotel for Crisp's inspection. A COMPLETE JOB. London, March 26. At Charlton, Northumberland, James Hunter, a groom, built and saturated with petroleum his own funeral pyre, set fire to it, and was incinerated. HORSE-OWNER'S ESTATE. London, March 20. The personalty of Joseph Henry Houldswortb, racehorse owner, has been proved at £327,507. He bequeathed £20,000 to charities, mostly in Scotland, and £SOOO to James Ryan, the Newmarket trainer. THE SALE OF POISONS. London, March 26. An order has been gazetted forbidding the sale of certain specified poisons unless the bottle is distinguishable by touch and clearly labelled. PARIS EXHIBITION POSTPONED. Paris, March 26. Replying to an inquiry, the chair-' man of the Chamber of Commerce has informed the Government that it is undesirable to hold an international exhibition in the near future owing to the impossibility of relying on workmen for the fulfilment of contracts in view of the frequence of sudden strikes.