GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 9 April 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

STUCK UP BY A BULL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 8, 7.50 p.m. London, April 7. During the motor cycle reliability trials across Dartmoor a bull charged one competitor, who was held up for twenty minutes. CANADA AND THE WEST INDIES. Toronto, April 7. A preference agreement of wide scope has been drafted, conferring substantial advantages oil Canada and the West Indies. It embodies arrangements for improved transport and cables NAYAL EXPANSION. > Corfu, April 7. Herr von Hellweg is visiting the Kaiser respecting the struggle within the Cabinet for naval expansion. The Kaiser has sent his portrait to the Staff College at Quetta. AN HISTORIC CASTLE BURNT. London, April 7. The historical Gibbstown castle, at Meath, has been partially burnt. Damage to the extent of £4o,(Mil was done. ROUGH (FOOTBALL. Berlin, April 7. Bavarian scholars under seventeen years of age have been prohibited from playing foot/hall, on the ground that rough and reckless play will possibly have a coarsening effect on the youths. THE TURKISH ELECTIONS. Athens, April 7. It is semi-officially stated that at the Turkish primary elections the troops surrounded the polling buildings, and only | allowed supporters of the Committee of Union and Progress to enter. The Christians and Albanians abstained from voting, and the authorities violated the ballot boxes. NOBLE TWINS. Received !), 10.35 p.m. London, April 8. The Marchioness of Linlithgow lias been presented with twin sons. She is progressing favorably. A DISASTROUS FIRE. : A fire at Ipswich, which commenced in a bedding factory in Princess street, burnt for twenty-four hours. It destroyed a hotel and a jeweller's shop. The damage is between £IOO,OOO and £200,000. GERMAN INTRIGUE. Received 9, 11.30 p.m. Berlin, April 8. Herr Haussmann, the South German Radical leader, has initiated a campaign against Admiral von Tirpitz, alleging that the Navy League is merely Tirpitz's instrument for the propagation of antagonism towards England. A SENSATIONAL OPERATION. Professor Payr, of Leipzig, has transferred a piece of the thyroid gland of a healthy mother to an idiot child, who was completely cured in a month. DISESTABLISHMENT. London, April 9. Liberal churchmen, including the Bishops of Birmingham, Hereford, Lincoln ami WeMon, have memorialised Mr. Asquith, protesting against disestablish- ! ment. \ NOT TAKING ANY. The Amalgamated Railwaymen refused the North-western Company's "bonus of £OO,OOO to lower-paid workers, in order that the disputed claim for increased wages might remain in abeyance until the termination of the existing award.