GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 101, 19 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

, A KIND OF DVXAMIia. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, October 17. Twenty largo atones and a quantity of dynamite were found on the railway 'line between Rhciins ami Apremont. MISSIONARY ROBBED AXD BEATEN. } Teheran, October 1 7. Miss Ross, a British medical missionary in Persia, was beaten and robbed on the Sliiraz road. A MURDERER EXECUTED. London, October 17. Oodhino, the Lascar who was convicted of the murder of a stewardess on the >teanier China, has been executed. BANK OF EGYPT. London, October 17. A compulsory winding-up order for the Bank of Egypt has been granted on the bank's application. MEAT FOR ITALY. London, October 17. Owing to the difficulty of securing Australian freight to Xaples, Italian orders for meat, including army orders, are going to the Argentine.

PORTUG UESE MONARCHISTS. Lisbon, October 17. Bands of Monarchists are still on the Spanish frontier. It is believed they are trying to organise a rising in the Upper Minlio provinces. Spanish cavalry captured a hundred Royalists. DEFECTIVE POWDER. Paris, October 17. There was a series of accidents Kluring gun practice on the cruiser Lavofssier at Toulon, and a quantity of powder was thrown overboard. SOUTH AFRICAN MAIL CONTRACT. London, October 17. No tenders have been received for the South African mail contract. The shipping conference companies refused a tender. It is expected that temporary arrangements will be adopted on the basis of poundage rates. THE CAMBRIAN STRIKE. London, October 17. There are 0500 idle as the, result of the Cambrian haulers' strike, which arose from the management displacing a man for cruelty to a horse.

BANK ROBBERY. London, October 17. The police have arrested a man in whose lodging was found £SOOO in German bank notes, which, it is believed, is part of the sum of £7OOO stolen from the Saarbrucken Bank. A PRINCE SHOT. St. Petersburg, October 17. A student named Kristi, rushing into a saloon from a carriage at Novotcur-' ka.sk, fired three shots from a revolver at and mortally wounded Prince Troubetski.,n member of the Council of Empire. CHARGE AGAINST OFFICER'S WIFE. London. October 17. The wife of Captain Coventry, late of the 17th Lancers, has been arrested on a charge of causing the death of a laborer named Gilks, whose daughter was formerly in the prisoner's employ. AAIERICAX TOBACCO TlU'.sT. New York, October 17. The American Tobacco Trust had filed plans of reorganisation, in accordance with the Supreme Court's decision, and is asking for an extension of time till March, 1012, to obey the induction.