GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 10, 6 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

RAM FOR NEW ZEALAND. By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright London, July 4. Mr. Harding, of Mount Vernon, New | Zealand, lias purchased a Romney ram, | a prize winner at Norwich and other J shows, for 300 guineas, which is a record price. j EX-POLICEMAN IMPRISONED. London, July 4. Ex-Inspector Syme, who sent a letter to Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, threatening a personal attack on Mr. Winston , Churchill, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. I FLOODS IN BULGARIA. ! Sofla, July 4. 1 There are devastating floods in Southern Bulgaria. The inhabitants are fleeing to the mountains. Crops and dwellings have been destroyed, and the damage is estimated at £4,000,000. OVERSEAS VISITORS AT DUBLIN. London, July 4. The overseas Parliamentarians were entertained at a banquet at University College, Dublin. MOTOR ACCIDENT. New York, July 4. Frey, the automobilist, while practising at full speed on Brighton beach, crashed into a fenee. The automobile overturned, pinning Frey beneath and inflicting injuries which will proba,bly prove fatal. Frey's mechanician escaped.

THE MARKING OF MEAT. London, July 4. in the House of Commons Mr. IT, Barnston's Bill for the marking of all imported meat and agricultural produce, also providing for the registration 01 dealers, was read a first time. lIOOLEY'S BANKRUPTCY. London, July 4. E. T. Hooky's liabilities arc estimated at £248,000. CANADIAN PLAGUES. Ottawa, July 4. A plague of .blackberries and grasshoppers in Southern Manitoba is devastating grain and potato crops. COAL MINERS' STRIKE. London, July 4. The Conciliation Board failed to settle the British Columbia and Alberta coal miners' strike. A SPENT BULLET. New York, July 4. While President Taft was entering the reviewing stand in front of the soldiers' monument a spent bullet hit a woman close by and inflicted a slight wound. The President was not told about the affair. KING INSPECTS BOY SCOUTS. London, Julv 4.

The King inspected 35,000 Boy ■Scouts at Windsor Park. The Queen, the Prince of Wales, General Baden-1 PovVplj, Lord' Roberts, and Lord Charles | Beresford were present. SABOTAGE IN FRANCE. I Paris, July 4. M. Anguneur, an independent Socialist, now Minister of Works, was warmly applauded for a speech in the Chamber of Deputies in reprobating sabotage and denouncing it as incompatible with any sane political doctrine or theory. The Minister added that he personally was determined to extirpate the evil. PERSIA'S PREMIER. " Teheran, July 4. Numerous telegrams which have been exchanged between the Cabinet, the Regent, and lenders of the Mejliss have had the effect of inducing Muhta Shim, who reeently left Persia, to return and resume the Premiership. FRENCH VOTING. Paris, July 4. The Chamber by a large majority voted for the reintroduction of the scrutin de listc, with the representation of minorities. ! ' 1