GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE FIRST WOMAN FELLOW. By Cable —Press' Association—Copyright. London, December 15. Eleanor Davis Colluy. bus been enrolled as the first woman Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Her father and two brothers are already Fellows. AN OLD RELIC. London, December 15. John Bunyan's copy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs" was submitted to auction, and £6OO was offered. The bid was, howe<vcr, declined. A HIGH-PRICED CLYDESDALE. London, December 15. The Gydesdale stallion Baron of Buckdyvie was sold at auction for £9500. This stallion had been the subject of protracted litigation. AN ARCHDUKE'S LOVE AFFAIRS. ■ Vienna, December 15. The • Archduke Henry Ferdinand', brother of Princess Louise of Saxony, haa fallen in love with a, bourgeois beauty. The Emperor Francis Joseph has refused to allow the marriage, and granted the Archduke indefinite leave of aibsence from his regiment to pursue his art studies. COLD STORAGE IN LONDON. London, December 15. The Port of London authority is erecting additional accommodation at Smithfield for 84,000 carcases of meat. FIRE IN A COAL MINE. London, December 15. A fire has broken out at the Cannock Chase mine, Staffordshire. Five miners are entombed, and heroic efforts at rescue are being made. WHITE SEA FISHERIES. St. Petersburg, December 15. Owing to protests by the Powers, Russia has dropped the claim to the twelve-mile limit of the White Sea fisheries. The Government baa decided to aid the fisheries in other ways. SUGAR. CONVENTION. Brussels, December 15. The Sugar Convention has agreed to a compromise and allows Russia, when the crop is abundant and prices are high, to export above 200,000 tons. Russia is permitted to export the present season's whole surplus and a new quota will be fixed hereafter.