GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 83, 24 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A POLICE SCHOOL. Bj Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Paris, August 22. M. Lepine, duel, of the Paris police, is establishing a technical police school, which will be a sort of Sherlock Holmes j college. \ RUSSIAN MUTINEERS. I St. Petersburg, August 22. Five mutineers at Tashkend have been sentenced to death, and 112 to varying period of penal servitude, 79 to hard: labor. Fifteen have been sent to the disciplinary battalion, and seven acquitted on the charges arising out of the recent sappers' mutiny. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. London, August 22. The Commonwealth is making known through the newspapers the new policy in connection with and the agricultural prospects of the Northern Territory. The Globe emphasises that the three prerequisites, before a through railway is made, should be irrigation and drainage, a ne-vr land system, and the encouragement of white labor. ANEW P. &'O. BOAT. London, August 22. Cajrds, at Greenock, are building an 11,500-ton steamer, 525 feet- long, for the P. & 0.. Company. CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. . I London, August 22. < | ■ Mr, R. G. Griffiths won the British j chess championship. > KID McCOY DISCHARGED. London, August 22. Kid McCoy, who was arrested recently on a charge* of jewel robbery at Ostena, has been discharged: SUPPOSED SPY ACQUITTED. i London, August 22. Quatalit, who was arrested at Galway for supposed espionage, has been discharged.