GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 94, 6 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FOOT. AND MOUTH DISEASE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, September 4. Mr. Cherry, Victorian Dairy Expert, acting on behalf <of the Commonwealth, has thoroughly studied the methods of dealing with foot and mouth disease at Dublin. SCULPTOR AND HIS WORK LOST. St. Petersburg, September 4. The steamer Kursk, which was bringing the French Government's granite memorial, to be erected on the battlefield of Borodino, foundered in the Baltic. M. Besenval, who was the sculptor of the monument, was among those drowned. THE PANAMA EXHIBITION 1 . Berlin, September 4. Germany is projecting a large exhibit at the Panama Exhibition at San Francisco, in the hope of capturing South American business. LUNACY LAWS. Brussels, September 4. A violent press campaign is being waged in favor of reform of the lunacy laws, owing to the abduction and immurement in a Brussels asylum of Baroness van Boron, a wealthy Dutch orphan, on the sole ground that she was mad, because she proposed to marry a coachman. She describes herself as the victim of her relatives' greed, and adds tJhat her suitor is in every way worth;? of her. She is prosecuting the Ostend police THE KAISER, j Berne, September 4. Enormous crowds greeted the Kaiser on his arrival at Zurich, whore he received: an ovation. The Bunderath will entertain him at a banquet. The army manoeuvres have opened at Kirchberg in the canton St. Gall. A CHEMICAL BOMB. Paris, September 4. The police authorities have adopted a chemical bomb for temporarily blinding. The invention is intended to be j used for the purpose of capturing bandits like Bonnot. A FRENCH STRIKE. Paris, September 4. The London and South-Western raili waymen arc supporting the St. Malo dockers, who have struck in order to reinstate a workman. EXPLOSION IN DYE-WORKS. New Y r ork, September 4. An explosion at Chicago wrecked the dyeing plant of Kraus Brothers. Four employees, who were buried in the debris, were dead when extricated, and twenty others were injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. COMPULSORY TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS / London, September A. | On a consumptive refusing to enter j a workhouse for treatment, a Magis- i j trate, in occordance with the St. Helen's ■ I Corporation Act, ordered him into a hos-' j pital for three monts. This is the first' ' case of the compulsory treatment oi 1 tuberculosis. > J A RHODES SCHOLAR. j London, September 4. I . Mr. Waddy, an ex-Rhodes scholar, from Sydney, has been appointed to an \ inspectorship of two opthalmic hospiI tals in Egypt. , , I A MODERN MIRACLE. ■ j New York, September 5. At Philadelphia, physicians arc in-. J vestigating the case of a two-year-old i boy, John Dugan. Two letters are disj tinctly visible, one being on the iretina I of each eye. The mothers declares that .' the letters form the initials of the j name fixed on for the child before its j birth. A PEKTN ROMANCE. London, September, 1. J Dr. George Morrison, formerly so well 1 known as the Pekin correspondent of the j Times, but now political adviser to the Chinese President, was married in London last Monday. The bride was Miss Jennie Robbin, a i New Zealand young lady, whom the fam--1 ous journalist recently met in Pekin. j Since his arrival in London Dr Morn'-' i son has been in hiding, and has thus j evaded the host of press interviewers by whom his whereabouts were sought. I PROPOSED DIVISION OF TRIPOLI. Constantinople, September I. Although nothing definite has transpired regarding the instructions issued by the Government to the delegates ontrusted with the peace negotiations with Italy, it is believed that Turkey's proposal will be that the hinterland of Tripoli, with an outlet to the Mediterranean, should bo left in her possession, | and that the rest of the territory, inelud- , mg the coastline, should be taken by Italy. j Diplomatic circles have fears for the J success of such a scheme. In any case > nothing definite is expected to be done until after the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. KOREAN PLOTTERS .SURPRISED. Tokio, September, 1, _ The trial of the Koreans implicated in the plot to murder Count Teranchi, the Japanese Governor-General of Korea, has just concluded in Seoul. All the prisoners were convicted. The Public Prosecutor has asked for the imposition of sentences ranging from five to 10 years' imprisonment. 1 The plotters had no idea that* they , were going to get off so lightly, and were much surprised that the court was not ■ asked to condemn them to death.