GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 276, 12 April 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A NEW IDEA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright | London, April 10. i Tests as to the advantage ot covering ships' bottoms with glass Lo increase the j speed and of utilising economical fuel will shortly be made on a liner. A POLICEMAN'S TROUBLES. Loudon, April 10. A sentence of three months' imprisonment on a man named Hodgson on a charge of having assaulted Henthorn, an unpopular member of the police, lea to a riot at Silsden. The police were reinforced, and used their batons in dispersing the mob. Constable Henthorn has now been transferred to another position. A petition has been presented to Mr. Churchill, asking for an inquiry into the conduct of the police, also demanding Hodgson's release. BAKERS AND GROCERS. London, April 10. There have been a hundred thousand visitors to the Bakers' and Grocers' Exhibition at Glasgow, where South Australia is making an excellent display of produce. A SEA ELEPHANT. London, April ID. Regent's Park Zoo has acquired a healthy sea elephant, the only specimen in England. DR. JOHNSON'S HOUSE. London, April 10. ■Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, M.P., is presenting the nation with Dr. Johnson's house in Gough Square. TRAIN ROBBERS. St. Petersburg, April 10. Thirty armed terrorists attacked a postal van at Turek, killed a gendarme and two policemen, dynamited the van, and stole 47,000 roubles. PLUNDER AND MURDER. St. Petersburg, April 10. Cossacks plundered and murdered nine German colonists at Alutska, in Northern Caucasia. A SERIOUS WRECKING." Ottawa, April 10. The steamer Iroquois, plying in the coastal trade from Victoria, was wrecked to-day, and from twenty to twenty-five persons were drowned.