GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 69, 12 September 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

SOUTH AIFKKJAN MAILS. j \ By Telegraph —Press Association. London, September 10. Tliere is a deadlock over the negotiations ifor the South African mail contract. MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENT. London, September 10. At a cycle meeting at Liverpool a competitor on a motor cycle, going at fifty miies an hour, dashed into the crowd, severely injuring himself Ind six spectators. A LONG SLEEP. Paris, ■September 10. Emiile Gautraud, a vinedresser, awoke well, after being aslfeep for six months in 'the Mowtipellier Hospital. He was fed daily with five pints of milk. COLONEL ASTOR HAPPILY MARRIED. New York, September 10.

Colonel Astor was married seoretly, and left with his wife immediately after the ceremony in his yacht for an unknown destination. Be-fore leaving, Colt>niel Astor gave a statement to the press: "I am now happily married, care not how difficult divorce or remarriage might be made." ! AN ENGLISHMAN DEPORTED. Mombassa, September 10. Indignation is expressed at the Colonial \office ordering -the deportation of the Hon. GaJbraith Cole upon a- Government warrant charging him with exciting racial enmity in the colony. [The Moil. Galbraith Lowry Cole was acquitted on a charge of having shot and killed a native named Sionga who was suspected of slveep-stealing at Makuxa, British East Africa.] BELLICOSE COUNCILLORS. London, September 10. . Two members of Waterford Corporation, on refusing to give bail .for good behaviour, were sent to prison for a. .month for having insulted the Mayor. •