GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 219, 14 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

1 AN AUSTRALIANS oJCCESS. By CaUe~Pres« Associatea—Copyright. | London, March 12. Newspapers publish fairly favorable notices of the production at the Court Theatre of the comedy, "The Humour of It," by Leon Brodzky, of Melbourne. PROFESSORSHIP OF GENETICS. London, March 12. Twenty thousand .pounds have been anonymously forwarded to Lord Esher i to establish a professorship of genetics at Cambridge. VIVISECTION JUSTIFIABLE. London, March 12. I The Royal Commissioners' report on I vivisection states that experiments on animals with adequate safeguards are morally justifiable and ought not to be prohibited. They add a number of recommendations to strengthen the existing safeguards. A STEAMER FOUNDERS. London, March 12. The steamer Wendur, from Plymouth, bound for Swansea, struck on the Seven Stones and foundered. A steward and two sailors are missing. JEWELLERY STORE LOOTED. j New York, March 12. j Three masked men at San Francisco held up a jewellery store belonging to Zaimau, a Japanese. They digged the proprietor, his wife and two children out of bed and bound them with ropes, then looted the store, and escaped with goods ! valued at £6OO. The robbers at the revolver's point compelled the Japanese to open the safe. A FATAL FIRE. Ottawa, March 12. At Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, FraserY Hotel was destroyed by fire. Five commercial travellers were burned to death, and ten other* narrowly et- l caped. A WEALTHY NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR. Paris, March 12. Doctor Paz, proprietor of the Buenos Ayres daily newspaper La Prensa, died at Monte Carlo, leaving four millions sterling. MR. LABOUCHERE'S ESTATE. London, March 12. • Mr. Labouchere's English estate, has been proved at £522,000. COLONISTS FOR AUSTRALIA. London, March 12. The Pakeha has sailed with 1150 emigrants for New South Wales, including 200 agricultural laborers, 25 Cornish miners, and GO bricklayers and carpenters. Mr. Coghlan and the secretaries j of several trade unions inspected the ae-! commodation. ' j