GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 73, 13 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE MULLAH. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, August 11. A correspondent of the Observer •tates that owing to the British withdrawal to the coast the Mullah is practically the uncrowned King of Somaliland. He has ten thousand mounted followers armed with rifles. He captured Bobottle and slaughtered a thousand men, women and children, and now threatens Berbera, where there are only ten whites. CHINESE MORALITY. London, August 11. The Pekin correspondent of the Observer says that the Assembly has legislated enabling a man to divorce his wife by simply declaring that he is dissatisfied with her. Another Bill will abolish concubinage, but is not retrospective.

MODERN JACK THE RIPPER. New York, August 11. A modern Jack the Ripper is reported from Denver. Miss S. A. Carlzen waa murdered and mutilated last night. There have been six similar crimes within six months. THE WALWORTH TRAGEDY. London, August 11. Thousands of Boy Scouts and immense crowds of spectators attended the funeral at Walworth ofrthe Boy Scouts who were drowned in the Channel. General Baden-Powell sent a wreath inscribed '"'Be prepared. Chief Scout's loving sympathy." A JAVANESE CRIME. Singapore, August 11. A Javanese coolie fatally stabbed Bowen, assistant on a Malacca rubber plantation. This crime, following on the similar murder of Macy, assistant on rubber lands at Johore", lias occasioned a sensation in the Straits Settlements. A SENSATIONAL ROBBERY. New York, August 11. A robbery of 72,000 dollars effected in June has just become known. Thieves dug through a thick ceiling and bored through a steel vault. . A safe containing three million dollars in notes and , coin was overlooked. , AN ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE. New York, August 11. Wiliam Brisbee was perhaps fatally injured, and 'Ms cashier, Morton, badly hurt by an infernal machine- sent, through an express company at Greensboro, addressed to Charles Hoover, a manufacturer influential in politics. THE SINGLE TAX. Capetown, August 11. The Transvaal Provincial Council by 23 to 6 rejected the single land tax. AMERICAN NAVAL MANOEUVRES. Washington, August 11. It ia believed that the Nebraska is not seriously injured. SUSPECTED SPIES. Berlin, August 11. Costavitoh and Dakin, who were arrested on charges of suspected espionage in Germany and Russia respectively, have been simultaneously .released on bail in £ISOO.

I A HARDENED YOUTH. Paris, August 11. [ Marcel Rouehes, a lad of 17, has been sentenced to death for strangling a paralysed aunt with a view to robbin° her. ° A WASTED LIFE. s Paris, August 11. Michaelis, a brilliant Berlin barrister and groat gambler, committed suicide at Enghien by drowning himself. , THE BUTESHIRE DAMAGED. ' ' ' Capetown, Ajisrust 11.' The Buteshire lias been .-Mained fivo days at Durban for repairs to her propeller. UNSEASONABLE WEATHER. London. August 11. Owing to excessive rain the English corn harvest is expected to be poor. [ Cut grass is ratting in the fields. I A SMALLPOX OUTBREAK. I Tl.--I - Capetown, August 11. I Thirty-four cases of smallpox have occurred m the centre of Johannesburg. THE MIKADO'S FUNERAL. ~ _. Washington, August 11. Mr. Knox, Secretary of State, will be special Ambassador at the funeral of the Mikado. It is the first time in the history of the States that such a step I has been taken. v