GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 26 September 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

STOLEN GOLD FROM RAND MINES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Capetown, September 24. A Government Commission will impure into the affairs of the East Hand Proprietories owing to the disappearance of £OO,OOO worth of gold during treatment in the cyanide plant. , THE LATE SIR ROBERT HART. Pekin, September 24. Sir Robert Hart was posthumously promoted to be senior guardian of the heir apparent, and a decoration was conferred on him. A PECULIAR AFFAIR. London, September 24. An inquest revealed the identity of Mr. Parnell's sister Catherine Ann, who was drowned while bathing at the Tunnel Baths, Ilfracombe, where she had been living under uh assumed name. THE OVERDUE SOLVVAY. London, September 24. The Solway has been reinsured at 55 per cent, premium. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. London, September 24. Mr. Bower, the Master of the SouthWest Wilts Foxhounds, died from hydrophobia caused by a bite from a fox. f i EOG R A PIIICA L CO N't) RESS. Rome, September 24. The International Geographical Congress has been postponed until next spring. FIGHT WITH BRIGANDS. Lisbon, September 24. The troops, after a sharp fight, in which they killed two brigands and seriously wounded six. captured a large quantity of stolen valuables. The gang had terrorised the Vallongc district. AN EDITOR ARRESTED. Madrid, September 24. The Spanish authorities have arrested Pineiro Chagos, editor of I lie newspaper Correio da Manha, who was expelled with Franco and Condhine last February for conspiracy. He has been handed over to the Portuguese police. RESTORATION TO A PRINCE. Madrid, September 24. King Alfonso has restored to Prince Alfonso of Bourbon and Orleans the army title of which he was deprived because he married a Protestant, Princess Beatrice of Saxe Coburg. TRAMC'AR ACCIDENT. London, September 24. A tramcar at Stourbridge got beyond control on a downhill grade to Birmingham and crashed into another car, fifteen persons being injured. AFRICAN MAIL CONTRACT. Capetown, September 24. Mr. Fischer, Minister of Ijands, in a speech at Bethlehem, hinted that unless the mail contract was amicably settled the Government would build its own ships.

A CABLE BROKEN. New York. September 24. Owing to an earthquake at Valdez, Alaska, the cable was broken between i Valdc/, and Sitka. ! NEW GOLD FIELD. London, September 24. Renter's Santiago de Chile correspondent reports that a gold liml has been discovered at Curcpto. Large quantities of gold in a pure state have been obtained during the first week. CANON'S REMAINS CREMATED. London. September 24. The body of Canon Duckworth has been cremated and the ashes interred in Westminster Abbey near his stall. TWO STEAMERS SUNK. Brussels, September 21. Two vessels on the River Scheldt collided anil sank, fourteen persons being drowned.