GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 296, 9 May 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

HURRICANE IN ALASKA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, May 7. i fThe Alaskan const was swept by a hurricane recently. Small vessels went ashore in many inlets and the boulders are strewn with wreckage. FARMERS' EDUCATION. The Hague, May 7. One hundred and fifty members of the British Dairy 'Farmers' Association visited Dutch dairy farms and butter and cheese factories. PHILATELIC SOCIETY. • London, May 7. The Junior Philatelic Society will entertain -Sir Joseph Ward at dinner at the Trocadoro to-morrow. The menu will bear the New Zealand stamp as a recognition of the Dominion having inaugurated Imperial penny postage. A PLUCKY RESCUE. London, May 7. Lily Boltwood, a servant, aged 18, at Chestnut, was severely burned while rescuing from a burning bed two children and their nurse, the latter having fainted. BRITISH TRADE FOR APRIL. London, May 7. Imports for April decreased by£7,705,244, mainly owing to the decrease in grain, flour, cotton, wool and silk. Exports increased by £400,211, and re-ex-ports decreased by £2,969,843. THE HOUNDSDITCH MURDERS. London, May 7. In the Houndsditch case the police admitted that Gardstein on November 19 signed as Mourin a receipt for £3l paid in pursuance of a telegram from Russia. Counsel for the defence criticised the police for withholding the fact until now. The superintendent replied that he did not consider the matter material.

FAME AT SEVENTY. London, May 7.' The' private purchase of his pictures and their subsequent exhibition in the Goupil Gallery has brought Mr. Walter Greaves, a septuagenarian, into instant fame, though he modestly describes himself as a pupil of Whistler. Critics declare that his stvle. apart from the Whistler characteristics, denotes great originality, and that he is a better craftsman than Whistler. OSTRICH FARMING TN CANADA. Ottawa, May 7. Otto Becker, of Hamburg, will establish an ostrich farm in Kootenay district. MADMAN RUNS AMOK. London, Mav 7. While gardening, an inmate of Belfast Asylum killed a man with a chopper and wounded two others fatally. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION. London, May 7. Three thousand emigrants left for Canada on 'Saturday. A RIGOROUS WINTER. Ottawa, May 7. Three minor-; were lost for forty days owinu to a blizzard, and endured some terrible suffering*. They ate wolves and dogs, POLICE PATROL LOST. Ottawa, May 7. Investigation of the loss of the police patrol leads to the supposition that the men were poisoned by Indians.