GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 29, 28 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

DAMAGES AGAINST AN ADULTERER. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright, London, July 26. Cleaver, a Liverpool solicitor, obtained a divorce with £2OOO damages against the co-respondent, Lord Victor Paget. THE BATTLESHIP A T EW ZEALAND. ' London, July 2(5. ■The name of the battleship New Zealand, now attached to the Home Fleet, will be changed to Caledonia. [Th« New Zealand gift Dreadnought, now being built, is to be called the New Zealand, hence the change in the name of the battleship of that name.] STORM ON THE ST. LAWRENCE. Ottawa, July 26. A windstorm is sweeping the St. Lawrence. A score of boats are missing, and several lives have .been lost. MOTOR BOAT WRECKED. Ottawa, July 20. The motor boat Romania sailed irom Bridgeport, Connecticut, and/ was attempting a'* Transatlantic journey to Queens town, when : she struck . some rocks off Nova Scotia and becaime a total loss. The crew were saved. TYPHOON IN JAPAN. Tokio, July 26. 'A typhoon has caused widespread damage in Tokio and Ycikohama. A hundred persons perished. Forty bodies have been recovered. FRENCHMAN RUNS AMOK. Tangier, July 20. A Frenchman 'who was suffering from i mental troubles raced naked through the streets of Larache at night and; threw himself on. the Spanish sentinel,'! who fired, wounding the Frenchman. The latter was removed to Tangier. MINERS' CONFERENCE. London, July 2G. The Miners' Conference carried the Austro-Gcrman resolution in favor of inspectors elected by the workmen, and adopted resolutions advocating a minimum wage and the nationalism of mines. SHOOTING NIAGARA. New York, July 20. Leach, after evading the polioe, entered Niagara in a steel barrel and was carried over the Horseshoe Falls, reappearing a few seconds later with part of the end of the barrel damaged. Leach was rescued fifteen minutes later with his kneecap broken and badly bruised, but otherwise uninjured.