GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 17, 14 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS. j By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. Ottawa, July 12. in political circles it is believed that .Sir Wilfrid Laurier intends to hold the general elections in October. The Liberal Party managers have been warned to lay plans for the campaign. | * AUSTRALIAN CADETS IN ENGLAND. London, July 12. Fifty Australian cadets are camped at Bisley, seventy at Crystal Palace, and seventy are visiting the provinces. The cadets will tour France and Germany, visiting the field of Waterloo. They will return by the Demosthenes on August 31. DOGS FOR MAWSON'S EXPEDITION. Copenhagen, July 12. Dr. Mawson's eight Greenland dogs have been delivered to the explorer's agent, and are being taken to London. ASIATIC CHOLERA IN ITALY. ' Rome, July 12. An official inquiry shows that there have been 80 cases of Asiatic cholera J and 20 deaths in Palmero in a week; 00 cases and 21 deaths in Naples; and 100 cases elsewhere in Italy. BENEFITS FROM SKIN GRAFTING. London, July 12.

The wife of an Essex farmer has been cured of the effects of a burning accident after many years' suffering through twenty members of her family having volunteered to give oter two hundred pieces of skin for grafting purposes.

THE BIRKBECK BANK. London. July 12. The court has ruled that Birkbeck's banking business was ultra vires and the shareholders are not liable for the losses of depositors, whose only claim is against the assets. CRIPPEN'S SOLICITOR. London, vJuly 12. Mr. Archer Newton, Crippen's solicitor, has been suspended for twelve months and ordered to pay cost?. Mr. Justice Darling stated that he was satisfied Crippen had not been defended as he should have been. The case was conducted largely for the purpose of making newspaper copy, and others besides Mr. Newton deserved punishment. SHOOTING OF A NATIVE. London, July 12. The Hon. Galbraith Lowry Cole has been acquitted on a charge of having shot and killed a native named Sionga who was suspected of sheep-stealing at Makura,-British East Africa. Mr. Harcourt, replying to a question, said that the official report of the trial would be published.

TURKISH EDITOR KILLED. Constantinople, July 12. Two assassins murdered Zekki-Rey, editor of Shcbra. This is the third murder of a journalist who opposed the Committee %i Progress. Two arrests have been made. SABOTAGE IN FRANCE. London, July 12. Tksra were tliree more attempts to derail trains yesterday in addition to wire-cutting aad other forms of sabotage. Several arrests have been made. PAGEANT OF EMPIRE. Loudon, July 12. Owing to the success of the Pageant of Empire performances they will l>e continued until the end of August, popular prices being charged. AN ARBITRATION CASE. London, July 12. King George has awarded the American claimants in the long-standing Alsop dispute between Chili and the United States £187,000. AN INQUEST REOPENED. New York, July 12. Following the death by what was supposed to be accidental drowning of James Petitt, president of the Peavy Grain Company, Chicago, the coroner hns been requested to Teopen the inquest, as Petitt had previously been in serious financial straits. THE UNION BANK. London, July 12. The Union Bank dividend is 10 per centum and the bonus 2 per cent. Then thousand pounds are written off the premises account, £20,000 carried to the reserve, anil £42,189 carried forward. A FATAL EXPLOSION. Berlin, July 12. An oil .store and an adjoining dynamite factory, at Wurgcndorf, Westphalia, exploded, eight persons being killed and two injured.