GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 320, 9 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FRENCH SHOOTING CASE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, July 7. The police arrested Nollet, a friend of Pa, rat. They allege that lie purchased a revolver wherewith l'arat shot a cleric. FRENCH NAVAL POWDER. Paris, July 7. A commission reports; that the recent gun explosions were not due to spontaneous combustion or defective powder. LESE MAJESTE. London, July 7. At the instance of Viscount Churchill, Mr. Justice Swinfern Eady granted an injunction against a lady named Meadows for selling tickets' in the Royal enclosure at Ascot. The Society people ifor whom she acted were not named. HIS PICTURE TO THE WALL. Berlin, July 7. A clerk named Schatz has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for turning the Kaiser's bust to the wall in a cafe at Saarbrucken, with insulting remarks. A GHOULISH OUTRAGE. London, July 7. The Osborne family vault on the Duchess of St. Albans' estate at Newtownner was broken into and a coffin r opened. The outrage is attributed to depredator:?, who believed a baseless rumci !i ', there were jewels in the cofrhi. DESECRATING THE FLAG. Washington, July 7. A Bill to penalise the desecration of the flag of the United States and the coat -of arms has been intmdrirrd into the- T V'~" of Vr ' ~'• . Ti, object is to provnt t/i'O use of ti>« Hag L: ■ !'■. (""tising -purr' — HE.'Vi' "I,N 1..;,- 'HO. New ioi-k, July 7. Seven deaths have occurred and a score of persons have been prostrated by the heat in Chicago. THE RULE OF THE AIR. Paris. July 7. The Civil Court has ordered the aviator Ffwman to indemnify a fanner for aeroplanes alighting on his property and frightening animals, hut it disclaimed jurisdiction over aerial traffic and declined to make silent motors obligatory. A' ROYALIST VICTORY. Madrid, July 7. Portuguese Royalists under Sepulveda, an ox-naval lieutenant, attacked Valenea-do-Mintra and captured the railway station. Fighting continues in the town. The telegraph wires have been cut.

A TRAITOR'S FATE. Berlin, July 7. Elders, a naval signaller; who was sentenced on June 28 for attempting to obtain the code books for sale to Britain, has received a further sentence of four years' penal servitude and six year.sj' loss of civil rights. Olga Cling, his fiancee, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having failed to give information. ! A CHAMBERLAIN BANQUET. London, July- 7. } Mr. Wyndham will preside at a baniquefc to celebrate Mr. Chamberlain's birthday. Sir Starr Jameson (South Africa), Mr. Oeorge Foster (Canada), and Lord Selborno will be the chief speakers at the meeting. Celebrations of the birthday will be held in many places on Monday. THE PERUVIAN RUBBER SCANDALS. London. Julv 7. The Chronicle states that Sir Roger Casement has presented to Sir E. Grey a report on the Peruvian rubber scandals, and be admits that the revelations are appalling. A PRIEST PUNTSHED. Paris, Julv 7. • J he Abbe Pitou, who alleged to the police at Lyons that he had been seized and robbed, but who afterwards co-n----|fe.ss.ed that he himself had misappropriated the money, has been sentenced ;to eight months' imprisonment.