GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 90, 2 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE SUGAR CONVENTION. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 1, 5.5 p.m. Brussels. August 31. Italy notifies that she withdraws from the Sugar Convention in September, 1913. THE MIKADO'S SPIRIT. Tokio, August 31. A room in the Palace adjoining the death chamber has been set apart as a sanctuary for the Emperor's spirit. Services will be held in it till the end of the year's mourning. ROYAL DONATION. London, August 31. The King has donated £IOO to the Mansion House Earthquake fund, and the Queen £3O to the Norwich flood fund. AN UNCONFIRMED RUMOR. London. August 31. There is an unconfirmed rumor that the Royal Packet Company is negotiating for the acquisition of the Peninsular Company. TIIE GREEN-EYED MONSTER. Paris, August 31. Madeline Grondona. a singer at Nice, hearing that her lover, Nicholas Dikavitz, a Russian architect, had married, shot him dead and surrendered to the police. A MOTOR ACCIDENT. Vienna, August 31. A brake failing on a motor-ear, the car fell over a precipice. A girl and a lady were killed, and another is in a critical condition. A WOMAN JOCKEY. London, August 31. A daughter of the jockey Bulford has applied to the Budapest Jockey Club for a jockey's license. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. New York, August 31. Mr. Sullivan, the United States Commissioner at the Olympic games, has published a statement replying to the charges of the English newspapers atrainst the American athletes' practices. He says that- the statements are lies, insulting to every member of the American team. CANADA'S MARRIAGE LAW. Ottawa, August 41. It is understood that the Government will not introduce marriage legislation during the coming session, considering the Privy Council decision sufficient. Mr. Lancaster, 'who introduced a Bill dealing with the N'e Temere decree, will not reintroduce the measure, as lie is satisfied to leave the matter as it is. EARLY COLONISTS' GRIEVANCE. Ottawa, August 31. A meeting of descendants of French seigneurs, the earliest colonisers of Quebec, demanded arbitration for their grievances before the Hague tribunal. They claim to have been dispossessed of lands held by treaty.