GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

EXPLOSION ON A DESTROYER. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, October 10. While the destroyer Nymphe was practising at Weymouth a six-pounder burst a foot from the muzzle. The splinters wounded three of the crew and pierced the funnel. THE SHIPPING COMBINE. Paris, October 19. After prolonged negotiations the Trans-Atlantic shipping companies have renewed the existing agreement for live years. A DIVORCE CASE. London, October 19. Foster, an artist, is suing for a, divorce from his wife, who is also an artist. Mr. Beecham, opera impresario, is corespondent. The wife has cro*»petitioned. The case is exciting much interest.

A MURDERER'S SUICIDE. Loudon, October 19.

After a short struggle with a warder, Ingram, who cut the throats of his wife and two step-children while they were in bed, jumped from a staircase window, several storeys high, in Newcastle Gaol, and was killed.

DISSATISFACTION WITH CANADIAN CENSUS. Ottawa, October 19.

There is general dissatisfaction throughout the Dominion at the result of the census. Many towns are planning to hold their own census. The men employed were political appointees, and many were unfitted for the task. It is claimed that whole streets in one large town were left uncounted.

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA, New York, October 19.

Mrs. Pankhurst, the well-known English suffragette, was the principal speaker at the Women's Suffrage Convention at Louisville, Kentucky. She claims that American women are becoming more insistent daily on the extension of the franchise. A delegation was present from every State in the Union.

AN ILL-BALANCED PRINCESS. Rome, October 19.

Ex-Crown Princess .Louise of Saxony has become reconciled to her husband, fiignor Toselli, and is living with him in Florence.-