GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 87, 29 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

n>i»i CANADIAN SAILORS. By Cable—-Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, August 27. The general conditions throughout Canada are so prosperous that it is impossible to secure men for the Canadian training ships Rainbow and Niobe. Efforts are being made to recruit sailors in England, desertions recently from the Canadian vessels reducing the crews to the vanishing point. CRETAN FILIBUSTERS. London, Augusjt 27. Renter advices state that British and French warships have been dispatched to Samoa to prevent the landing of Cretan filibusters sseeking to procure annexation to Greece. A CLERICAL TRAGEDY. Lisbon, August 27. A priest who was officiating- at a funeral at Aldeia was arrested for assault and was allowed to enter the vestry. On returning he shot an official dead. The populace killed the priest and mutilated his body. CHINESE TIRATES ARRESTED. Hong Kong, August 27. The police seiaed a .pirate junk at Macao and arrested four men. They recovered a quantity of jewellery and loot recently stolen from Dunbell Island. A LUCKY ESCAPE. London, August 27. Tom Pritchard, who was charged with feloniously receiving the Princess of Hesse's jewellery, has been discharged. The Princess declined to identify tlie bag. , . ..../iiiaJ '| ;