GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 105, 11 January 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Capetown, January 9. General Botha has decided to retrench the whole staff of scab inspectors, substituting field-cornets. This is interpreted to mean inefficient administration of the Stock Diseases Act, as the field-cornets are practically the heads of families and are unlikely to enforce the drastic provisions of the Act. EARL DUDLEY'S IMPRESSIONS. London, January 9. | Earl Dudley read a paper at the Royal Colonial Institute on "Some ImI pressions of Australia." He disapproved |of the hasty selection of the Federal j capital, and considered that fourteen legislative chambers were an over-gener-ous allowance for four and a half millions of people. He strongly advocated fresh endeavors in connection with immigration. CLERGYMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. New York, January 9. The Rev. Mr. Richeson, the clergyman who pleaded guilty to the murder of his sweetheart, has been sentenced to death. ENGULFED IN LIQUID BRONZE. Paris, January 9. Eight were killed by the explosion of a mould of molten bronze at Angouleme gun foundry, owing to escaping gases. Three of the bodies have not been discovered. They were engulfed in liquid metal weighing 77,000 pounds. DUEL BETWEEN SCHOOL BOYS. Berlin, January 9. j As the result of a quarrel over a girl of thirteen, two schoolboys, aged seventeen, arranged a duel with pistols in a wood at Detmoid. One boy, who was wounded in the chest, is in a critical condition. The victor callously left him in the field. I ; ! SMALLPOX AT JOHANNESBURG. : _ Capetown, January 9. Seven cases, two fatal, of smallpox are reported from the Malay quarter of Johannesburg. j HEAVY DEATH DUTIES. j London, January 9. The* personality of Charles Soper i Writburn, discount agent, has been sworn at £1,481,000, of which £237,00 i goes in death duties. Y.M.C.A. FUND. London, January 9. The sum of £13,459 has been received in the first two days' canvas for the Y.M.C.A. fund. FRENCH MINISTER RESIGNS. Paris, January 9. M. de Selves, Minister for Justice, has resigned as the result of differences with M. Caillaux. A RAILWAY COLLISION. New York, January 9. A Rock Island passenger train was wrecked by a collision with a freight train at Piatt river. The number of victims is unknown. , A SPEEDY BATTLESHIP. London, January 9. H.M.S. Lion, despite terrible weather in the Channel, attained a speed of 31 knots in her -trial.