GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 19 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

RUSSIA AND THE JESUITS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. St. Petersburg, December 17. The Government refused the British Embassy's application to waive the law against the admission of Jesuits, to enablo Father Pigott, a.n Australian scientist, to undertake seismological studies at Pulkova observatory. CONTROL OP TORPEDOES. New York, December 17. Mr. John Hayes Hammond, jun., has completed 1 his method of guiding torpedoes by wireless. The method is believed' to be also applicable tV> aeroplanes. A HOTEL BURNED. New York, December 17. At Santa Barbara, California, an annex to the Hotel Potter was burnt and 1 Ave persons injured. There was a panic among the girls working an the laundry. Many were rescued exhausted by the smoke. GIRL SHOOTISTS ACQUITTED. New York, December 17. Lilian Graham and Ethel Conrad have been acquitted on a charge of shooting' (but not killing) ,the millionaire sportsman and hotel-owner, W. Stokes. i RECORD OF VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE. | New York, December 17. The seismograph recorded a violent earthquake four thousand miles away, in a direction which could not be ascertained. CLEMENCY ASKED FOR A CARTOONIST. London, December 17. Nineteen members of the Royal Academy have sent a letter to the King of Spain, requesting clemency for Sagusta, the cartoonist, who is undergoing a sentence of nine years' imprisonment. The cartoon was entitled "Homage to Ferrer." SPANISH RiIOTERS SENTENCED. Madrid, December 17., : A court-martial at Suecca, Valencia, tried 1 twenty-one rioters for killing a magistrate and two court officials, and six were sentenced to death. CANNOCK CHASE MINE. . „ London, December 17. One body has been recovered from the Cannock Chase mine. It is believed the other men are dead also. PICTURES OF ITALIAN ATROCITIES. Ottawa, December 17. At.Montreal pictures showing Italians committing atrocities in Tripoli caused a riot. The picture theatre proprietor was forced to suspend the performance, and the theatre was partially wrecked . LONDON'S BLACKMAIL CASE. London, December 17. The Comtesse Demain, in cross-ex-amination, declared that Dobbie wished her to marry him, and settle £SOO a year on him.