GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 9 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

FOOT AX I) .MOUTH DISEASE.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. \ London, December 7. \ Foot and mouth disease has ceased in England. j EXPLOSION IN A MINT. St. Petersburg, December 7. An explosion in the testing room at the mint killed and injured 40 persons. The whole place was destroyed. GERMAN STRIKE. Berlin, December 7. The metal worker.-' ballot lacking the requisite majority in favor of continuing the strike, the lockout has ended. AN ALLEGED SPY. Berlin, December 7. The trial uf Schuitz on a charge of espionage is proceeding in camera at Leipzig. WRONGLY .SENTENCED. Rome, December 7. Morano -liusti was in 1811(1 charged with the. murder of Callneissta and sentenced to life imprisonment. Another of her lovers, named Silvespaini, has just coiiß-sed on his deathbed to the crime, and .litisti was immediately liberated. BOTTOM-LEY'S AFFAIR. Loudon, December 7. Mr. Horatio Bottomley has filed a petition in bankruptcy in order to protect his assets against litigants' receiving orders being granted. ACTION FOR LIBEL. London, December 7. The Hon. Claude Hay has been awarded £2500 damages against the Star and Morning Leader for libel in connection with the Hoxton election. The papers alleged that he had visited school- for political reasons. A NAVY APPOINTMENT. London, December 7. Captain Howard Booth has taken up the duties of naval adviser to the Commonwealth, and is selecting officers for the training college. They will probably sail in January. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. London, December 7. The imports in November increased by £1,343,083, exports by £4,088,000, and re-exports by £375,023, as compared with those of November last year.

THE USE OF TELEPHONES. Ottawa, December 7. Telephone train despatching, which was adopted in August by the Canadian Pacific Company, has to" be abandoned

owing to unsatisfactory working, and telegraphs will he reinstated. IDVULLNCr DOWN THE UNION JACK. London, December 7. Dalton, councillor of the Irishtown ward of Limerick, Solomon Frost, and John Brennan were sentenced to a month's hard labor at Connaught assizes for unlawful assembly. The Union Jack was removed from a local resident's house. It was pleaded that it was in the interests of peace, as the majority in the ward were Nationalists. ALLEGED PRESS LIBEL. London, December 7. Mr. Allison, of the Sportsman, fip-j pealed against Mr. Justice Serutton's order setting aside a writ served on the Independent Press Cables Association lor an alleged libel appearing in the Sydney Sun on May 30. Lite appeal was dismissed on the ground that defendant was outside the jurisdiction of the court and the proper person was not served. THE JURY SYSTEM. London, December 7. Mr. McKenna, Home Secretary, has appointed a committee, of which Lord Mersey is chairman, to inquire into the constitution of juries, their qualification, mode of selection, and any amendments desirable. MINERS' MINIMUM WAGE. London, December 7. ■ The Coal Conciliation Board for the federated districts in Britain discussed the minimum day wages and adjourned to the 18th without decision.