GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 305, 21 June 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

OUTBREAK OF UHOLEIIA. By Cable—Press Bombay, June 19. There have been 518 oases of cholera reported in a week, 428 persons, including two Europeans, succumbing. ABDUL HAMID INSANE. Constantinople, June 19. It is rumoured that Abdul Hamid, the late Sultan, is insane. OPERATION AT SEA. London, June 19. While the training ship Mersey was in a gale off Cape Horn, the surgeon, of the vessel successfully operated on a cadet for appendicitis. A HANDSOME DONATION. London, June 19. White, a Wiltshire cheese-factory owner, has bequeathed £200,000 to the Bishop of London for the benefit of the Church of England. PRIMITIVE METHODIST CENTENARY. London, June 19. The Primitive Methodists' centenary funds, which are aiming to raise £250,000 for local and £IOO,OOO for central objects, have already reached £240,000 and £BB,OOO respectively. AN AGGRESSIVE DUCHESS. London, June 19. The Duchess of Somerset, in a letter ■to the press, says that as the infamous Insurance Act does not touch the fringe of poverty, she will passively resist the payment of the servant tax. She urges employers not to submit, and adds that the whole country cannot be imprisoned and fined.