GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 8, 4 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

lie MILES AN HOUR. By Oablo.~Pre.ss Association.—Copyright London, July 2. ' Bording, in an automobile, did a mile in thirty-nine seconds, at Saltburn-by-tlie-Sea, which is a record. THE BOWRON CASE. London, July 2. | The case against Knight, who was indicted •' for conspiracy along with Bowron Bros., has again been adjourned. A TRAIN DEKAILED. | New York, July 2. A freight train was derailed at Drum- j bo. The caboose fell over a thirty feet embankment, and a section foreman was killed and several men injured. FRENCH POLITICS. •' Paris, July 2. The French Chamber by 367 votes to 177 passed a vote of confidence in M. Caillaux, the new Premier. TROUBLE IS" BATAVIA. Berlin, July 2. Advices from Bataria state that fighting has occurred on the disputed frontier territory at Timor. The Portuguese occupied the district claimed by the Dutch, and the hitter -withdrew their detachments, but subsequently sent reinforcements. A DARING ABDUCTION. New York, July 2. A daring abduction took place in the Central Park, New York. Six men, believed to be members of a kidnapping gang, jumped into a taxi-cab, seized a girl, shot her male escort, and dashed off before the police had time to act. The wounded man declines to give the girl's name. ASPHYXIATED IN A BATTLESHIP. London, July 2. One of the Superb's crew was suffocated, and perished while trying to save the other two.

SENTENCED FOR ESPIONAGE. Berlin, July 2. Captain Lux, a Frenchman, and conductor of the intelligence bureau at Belfort, who 'has been in regular communication with several persons in Germany, has been sentenced at Leipzig to six years' confinement in a fortress for espionage. ■ , CHOLERA AT TRIESTE. Trieste, July 2. There is another ease of cholera on the Oceanic.

BRITISH REVENUE. London, July 2. The revenue for the quarter is £38,808,G73. Customs totalled £7,576,000, excise £8,450,000, and stamp revenue £2,123,000. The large decrease in the revenue is due to the inflation in 1910 in consequence of collecting arrears of income tax. POWDER CAR EXPLODES. New York, Jul; 2. A carload of powder standing in a tunnel on the Southern Pacific railroad, near San Francisco, exploded, derailing an approaching freight train. Many of the train's crew were injured, and the tunnel wrecked.