GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 68, 11 September 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

>• GERMAN NAVAL MANOEVURES. I \ By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, September S. Tt lias now been arranged to hold the naval manoeuvres in the western waters of tho Baltic, instead of near Dantzig. OUTBREAK OF POLIOMYELITIS. London, September 8. Owing to fln acute outbreak of poliomyelitis twenty-five schools in Devonshire have been clo=ed. There are SO cases, and 10 deaths hive taken place. Many children are permanently paralysed. [Myelitis is a disease causing inflammation of the sipinal marrow.] CANADIAN GOLD RUSH. Ottawa, September 8. A rich discovery of gold and silver ores has been made in the Chilcotin country, and there is a stampede to the field throughout British Columbia. VOTERS AND THE POOR RATE. London. September 8. Two thousand five hundred Newport voters have been struck off the roll as the outcome of the decision of the court that tenants are ineligible to vote if they do not directly pay the poor rate. THE DELHI DURBAR. London, September 0. Tt is stited that, for reasons of Imperial policy, the representation of nations at ,the Coronation Durbar will "he < confined to Oriental countries. THE MTSSTNG PICTURE. Madrid. September 8. A newspaper announces the unconfirmed arrest at Leon of two .foreigners carrying n painting supposed to be tho missing La Giocondi. stolen from the Louvre Oallerv in Paris. They '-.tilled that -the picture was merely a copy. MURDERER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Paris, September 8. Houssard. wlro confessed to the murder of Guillotin. has made several attempts nt suicide. FORTY WORKMEN KILLED. Paris, September a. A theatre, in course of repiir at Nine. eollap'ed. burying fortv workmen. Sixteen dead bodies have been rescued, and a Sew persons have been rescued lwtdly injured. SCHOOL CHTLDIREN ON STRIKE. London, September 8. The children at Edgehill School. Liverpool, struck for an extra half-holiday weekly and pavment to monitors of a penny per wpcV- They paraded the streets, smashing 'Tamps. They picketed other schools, and beat scholars who refused to join them. The strike collapsed on (he ringleaders being soundly thrashed. * PORT ARTHUR RAILWAY. St. Petersburg. September 8. The Czar has confirmed the fixing of tiie value of tho Port Arthur-Kwang-ehcngtsz railway, relinquished to Japan under the treaty at the end of the war, at £8,500.000. * , COLD-pLOODF.p MT'RDER. j St. Petersburg. September 8. Two leading citizens of Vral-k having charged. Liokin. superi-.itendent of police, with blackmail, lie shot them de-id in cold blood, one in the street and the other in his- own house. I