GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 236, 3 April 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE SEDDON APPEAL. By Gable—Preie Assoeiation—Copyright. London, April 1. The appeal of Seddon against his conviction for the murder of Miss Barrow has commenced. A DOUBLE FATALITY. New York, April 1. Two American artists of some note, named Robert Newman and Miss Louise Seholfield Round, were asphyxiated in their own houses by the accidental escape of gas. The deaths occurred almost at the same time, but it is a curious coincidence that the victims were not acquainted with each other. A JEWEL ROBBERY. London, April 1. Burglars entered the skylight of a shop adjoinining Ettlingers, jewellers, Regent street, and cut huge holes through the walls, apparently intending to remove the safe, which they finally prised open and stole £13,000 worth of jewel* lery. AN INTESTATE .MILLIONAIRE. New York, April 1. John Arbuckle, the sugar millionaire, is dead. He is worth £4,000,000, and as no will has 'been found, and no children survive him, the property will probably be divided amongst his sisters. CLUB LAW. New York, April 1. A maniac attacked Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, with a club at Wankessa, in Wisconsin, on a public platform. A bystander knocked the man off and the crowd overpowered him. He turned out to be a Pole named Schomulta. A NEW GUINEA TRAGEDY. Port Moresby, April 2. Frank Pryke, leader of a Government prospecting expedition in Papua, reports being treacherously attacked by natiives on the Vailala river. Pryke received an arrow in his body, and replied with rifle fire, killing one native. The others fjed. THE MEXICAN REBELLION. New York. April 1. The United States Government agrees to allow munitions of war to be sent across the frontier in aid of the Mexican Government against the rebels. The ques'tion of neutrality is not affected, and the rebels are not being recognised as belligerents. A COLORED BISHOP. Calcutta, April I. The first Indian native to be appointed to the Anglican Bishopric is the Rev. Mr. Azariah, who has been appointed to the new see of Southern India.