GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 14, 11 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL. By Cable.—Press Association— Lisbon, .Inly 9. Thirty-live thousand troops have been sent to the northern frontier. CHINESE PORCELAIN. London, July 0. Mr. Richard Bennett's collection of 500 pieces of Chinese porcelain will remain in England. IMPERIAL HEALTH CONGRESS. London, July 9. Sir J. M'Call, Agent-General for Tasmania, presided at the Imperial Health Congress at Caxton Hall. Miss Amy Hughes read a paper on nursing in Australia.

A DANGEROUS MADMAN. London, July 9. George Hay, a cyclist, who overtook Paul Splitters, a motor cyclist, Bear St. Albans on June 6, and seriously wounded him with a revolver after demanding money, has been found to bo insane.

HEAT WAVE IN NEW YORK. New York, July 9. Six hundred horses have died" from the effects of the heat in New York during the last six days.

THE ROUBAIX EXHIBITION. Paris, July 9. Sir George Reid and Sir /William Hall-Jones welcomed M. Fallicres. the President of the French Republic, ai. the Australian and New Zealand courts at the Roubaix Exhibition. M. Fallicres was greatly pleased and interested. BOMB FACTORY FOUND. Buenos Aires, July 9. Two Italian anarchists have been arrested, and a bomb factory discovered at their lodgings.

SERIOUS EARTHQUAKE. Buda Pesth, July 9. As the result of an earthquake at KeeskemeJi the railway station and ■barracks collapsed, and "the town hall, law courts, and theatre were seriously damaged.

SIR ELDON GORST. London, July A. The Khedive spent an hoar at Sir Eldon Gorst's bedside in his father's home at Castle Cove, Wiltshire. The authorities were unaware of his visit. He travelled incognito to see Sir Eldon Gorst, and then went to Paris. Sir Eldon Gorst k sinking.