GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 113, 2 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

REVOLVERS FOR POLICE. | By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, October 31. I The Metropolitan Police Authorities j have ordered two thousand Webley revolvers for selected men. A CHARGE OF MURDER. London, October 31. Mrs. Coventry, wife of Captain Coventry, lias been committed for trial on a charge of having caused the death of a laborer named Gilks, whose daughter was employed by her.

AN ARTIST'S DIVORCE. London. October 31. In the ease Foster v. Foster and Beecham a divorce was granted with costs against Beecham. A cross petition was abandoned. The hearing lasted eight days and the newspapers printed columns of evidence daily. ELECTION LIBELS. London, October 31. Mr. 0. Locker Lampson, M.P. for the Ramsey Division of Huntingdonshire, has been awarded £IOOO damages against the Peterborough Citizen and Hunts County News, Liberal newspapers, for election libels. STRICKEN WITH BLINDNESS. Ottawa, October 31. Captain Conger, a well-known Canadian military man, was stricken with blindness. He was greeting a friend at a Winnipeg club when he collapsed. He was aware that blindness was coming on him. A DASH FOR LIBERTY. St. Petersburg, October 31. Criminals attempting to escape from the Borsov prison at Minsk killed a warder, seized his revolvers and keys, find liberated 105 prisoners. They exchanged volleys with the warders, two criminals and one warder being killed. The ringleaders have been put in irons.

SLUMP IN STEEL TRUST STOCK. New York, October 31. Wall Street has not recovered from ihe slump in United States Steel Trust sto.ok, but there is more confidence in other stocks. Canadian-Pacific shares are leading. AMERICAN POLITICS. New York, October 31. Mr. Taft surprised a club gathering at Chicago by admitting that there was a crisis in the Republican Party, and that defeat was probable at the national election. j CONTROLLING AMERICAN RAIL- ! WAYS. Washington, October 31. 1 The Supreme Court has decided that: all rail and road equipment shall in future be under the control of the United States Commerce Commission.' The effect of the judgment is to give complete control of the railways into the hands of the commission. OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA IN INDIA. Calcutta, October 31. Cholera has broken out in the cantonment of the Royal Scots and Northern Regiment at Benares. Eighteen cases have been reported and five deaths have occurred in twentv-four hours.