GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 89, 31 August 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A THEATRICAL LEASE. By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright Received 30, 9.20 p.m. Sydney, August 30. Mr. 11. D. Mcintosh, the boxing promoter, has secured a thirty years' lease of the whole of Rickards' theatrical business. SNOW IN MELBOURNE. ' Melbourne, August 30. There were scattered -snowflakes in the city for the second time in twenty-five years. \ A USEFUL INVENTION. London, August 30. Hodgkinson Bros.' invention of a ship's wireless recorder, showing the positions of other vessels sounding sirens in a fog has been successfully tested in the Mersey. AN ACTIVE SIIARBMARKET. London, August 30. Royal Mail Steam Packet shares-rose from £123 a week ago to £137 10s on Wednesday, and £l5O yesterday. There are rumors of a proposed amalgamation, but a consensus of opinion is that the rise is largely due to market conditions. A TRAWLER LOST. London, August 30. The Lowestoft steam trawler Hildamaud foundered in a hurricane with ten hands. A MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Received 30, 10.10 p.m. New York, August 30. Louis Potter, the noted American sculptor, died during treatment for skindisease of the hand by a Chinese physician. The Coroner has ordered an enquiry. There are mysterious circumstances, as the body was found in obscure lodgings. 1 CATTLE MATMING. London, August 30. Three eases of cattle maiming, recalling the Wvrlev outrages, are reported from North and South Staffordshire.