GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 223, 19 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS PUBLICATION. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, March 17. Benjamin Buck and Charles Buck, printers, and Bowman, a journalist, have been committed for trial on a charge of publishing seditious matter in the Syndicalist. AN EXPLORER HONORED. Paris, March 17. Dr. Charcot has been awarded the French Geographical Society's large gold medal as recognition of his Antarctic work. POLO TOURNAMENT. New York, March 17. The international polo tournament at San Diego has been concluded. Canada defeated England by 4% points to 4. ALLEGED ROBBERY OF JEWELS. ' London, March 17. Bosch has been ordered to be extra- ' dited for having received the jewels of the Dowager Queen of Siam, and having disposed of them for £BO,OOO. A SUCCESSFUL PLAY. London, March 17. Upwards of half a million people have visited "The Miracle" at Olympia. Last night's was the closing performance. TERRITORIALS INJURED. London, March 17. A taxi-cab at Farnborough dashed into a company of infantry which was engaged in night operations. Many men were severely hurt and two are in' a critical condition. TARIFF REVISION IN SOUTH \ ' AFRICA. Capetown, March 17. A revision of the tariff is unlikely, owing to divergencies in the Cabinet over the report of the commission. KILLED IN A CANTEEN. Berlin, March 17. A corporal and two soldiers at Mulheim surprised three burglars in the canteen. After showering bottles, glasses and plates on the soldiers one man surrendered, but the others decamped, and, paying no attention to a summons to halt, were shot dead. AN ALDERMAN CONDEMNED. London, March 17. The Court of Aldermen decided that Sir Thos. Brooke Hitching' was unfit to be an alderman. He was recently elected for Farringdon Ward. He is accused of speculating in the. shares of a company which the vestry of which ha was a member intended to acquire.