GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 303, 17 May 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BOASTFUL PREVARICATORS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 15. The hearing of the Nottingham East election petition produced a long procession of witnesses, who boasted that they had been liars in the statements originally made with a view to having a petition lodged, which statements they now denied. ROYALTY'S DOINGS. London, May 15. Owing to the recent fire King George will not visit the music hall at Edinburgh. The King and Queen will patronise a matinee at the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in aid of sufferers through the recent music hall fire. MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. London, May 15. Two miners named Wright and Wood have been committed for trial at Wakefield on a charge of having murdered a gamekeeper named Joyce. A LONDON MEMORIAL. London, May 15. Mr. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, unveiled a memorial in Ruskin Park, Camberwell, in honor of Captain Wilson, commander of the Duff, the first London Missionary Society's ship to cruise among the South Sea Islands. AEROPLANES BURNED. London, May 15. In the fire at the North London aerodrome five aeroplanes were burned. TURKISH SOLDIERS KILLED. Constantinople, May 15. So far fifteen Turkisn soldiers on the Bulgarian frontier have been killed and Ghorgkiff, a Bulgarian captain. PLAGUE AT DELHI. Calcutta, May 15. The continued prevalence of plague at Delhi is disquietehing the Durbar officials. STRIKE OF SHIPWRIGHTS. ; 1 Loudon, May 15. Six hundred shipwrights At Southampton have struck for an increase of wages of a halfpenny an hour.

A CHARGE OP MURDER. Buda-Pesth, May 15. A landowner and his two son's have been on , a charge of having assassinated Hcrr Action, a Hungarian deputy. AX EXPULSION ANNULLED. Amsterdam, May 15. The expulsion fro,m Iloland of Tinsley, representative of the Uranium Steamship Company, for illegally landing a Russian who had been refused admission to Germany, has been annulled. ACCIDENT AT VANCOUVER. Ottawa, May 15. By the collapse of a false front in the principal street of Vancouver five men were seriously injured. FIVE YEARS' LEGAL BATTLE. New York, May 15. The Supreme Court at Washington, after a five years' battle, has decided against sending Gompers and Mitchell, the Labor leaders, to gaol. A CHURCH RIOT. New York, May 15. The attempted removal of the pastor of a Polish Catholic Church at Cleveland resulted in a riot, in which two persons were killed and ten injured. STANDARD OIL CO. IN TROUBLE. New York, May 15. The Standard Oil Company lost its appeal and the company has been declared a combination for the restraint of trade. '