GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 81, 22 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A SHIP ASHORE. : By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. | r New York, August 20. Tlio cargo boat Pleiades i.s ashore in [Lower California. The cargo has been jettisoned. The crew are safe. There are hopes of saving the vessel. A POLITICAL MURDER. St. Petersburg, August 20. A soldier, sentenced to imprisonment, rushed to_ the residence of Prince TumanoiT, his commander, and .shot the prince in the lungs. Officers, arriving, killed the murderer. A JEWEL THEFT. London, August 20. Tom Pritchard, of The Ring, Blackfriars Road, has been remanded on a charge of feloniously receiving the Princess of Hesse's bag, recently stolen from Victoria Station. Israel Abrahams gave evidence that he saw two strangers sell Pritchard -the hag, but did plot notice the mark till Pritchard sent the bag to him to try and get an initial stamped over the' "M" which was already there. He then noticed that the crown had been scratched oil'. The errand was,fruitless and the bag was returned. Subsequently witness learned from the newspapers that the bag had been stolen, and informed Pritchard. The latter removed the bottles and then cut up and burned the bag. STORMS IN ENGLAND. '• London, August 20. Violent thunderstorms and cloudbursts in various parts of England have seriously affected the harvest. A number of. cattle grazing at Daventry and. Nantwich were killed. The damage to potato crops in two districts in Lincolnshire is estimated at £IOO,OOO. ; A CHINESE OUTRAGE. Hong Kong, August 20. Forty pirates commandeered a launch and looted the police station at Dumbell Island, taking a number of rifles and bayonets. They killed three Indian police, kidnapped a money-lender and escaped.