GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 95, 7 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE ITALIAN ARMY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Roma, September 5. It is officially announced ffliat General Caneva will retire and will be succeeded by Generals Ragni and Briccola. They have been appointed to separate comj mands in Tripoli and Cyrenaica respec- ; tively, with a view to pushing operations in the interior. SOCIALIST RIOTS. New York, September 5. I At Minneapolis the Socialists caused riots in the streets. The police were summoned, and charged the rioters. Scores were injured in the melee, and have been removed to the hospital. Seven arrests were made. The police suffered heavily. The riot was the outcome of the prohibition of Socialist meetings in the citv streets. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. London, September 5. The British Olympic Council reports that the failure to obtain better results at Stockholm was due to lack of adequate opportunities, for training. Unless there is a large subscription that will enable the council to supply proper training it must decline responsibility for a team in 1010. LLOYD-GEORGE HECKLED. London, September 5. Mr. Lloyd George presided over the Eistedfodd at Wrexham, and addressed the assembly of twelve thousand. Numerous interruptions by suffragettes led ' to seven men and women being ejected, and roughly handled in the process. THE SUGAR CONVENTION. London, September 5. In notifying Britain's withdrawal from the sugar convention, Sir Edward Grey intimated that Britain did not intend to give, bounties or preference for sugar or impose a higher duty on beet than on cane sugar. AMERICAN STEEL RAILS. London, September 5. The Manchester City Council, by an overwhelming majority, placed a contract for steel rails with an American company, whose tender was £10,231, as compared with a Sheffield tender of £ll,088. THE MIKADO. Tokio, September 5. The .Emperor and Empress jointly received diplomatists and their wives. This action is unprecedented, as the Mikado and his consort have hitherto held separate receptions. The diplomatists subsequently defiled before the coffin of the late Mikado, on which Sir Claude Mac Donald, the British Ambassador, laid a silver wreath as a tribute from the diplomatists. Five hundred 'British bluejackets will participate in the funeral. A RICH ESTATE. Berlin, September 5. ' Norhauscn, who died worth £7,750,000, was, during the manoeuvres in 18G2, billeted with a farmer named Hewall. He married Hewall's daughter, and su'bseiquently inherited ITewall's farm, which was afterwards enormously enhanced in 'value by becoming the'centre of a fashionable residential Berlin suburb, ) MOTOR YACHTING. New York, September 5. . The British 'Motor Yacht Club won the Harmsworth trophy with Mapleleaf .1. Baby was second and Reliance third. j!Time, 47min 46sec. The owner has , claimed that the Mapleleaf is the world's 1 fastest motor vacht. i' THE SUFFRAGETTES. | London, September 5. j Mrs. Dupre Wilson, of Dublin, has j bequeathed £4OOO to the National Union if oi" Women's Suffrage. DUTCH SOLDTERS DROWNED. . The Hague, September 5. By the collapse of a raft at Utrecht. ) six soldiers were drowned. \ THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION. Constantinople, September 5. The Tanin has been suspended for accusing tlie Government of arresting Shawish on mere suspicion of a connection with Egyptian revolutionary movements. AN IMPETUOUS STRIKER. London, September 5. John Marston, the seamen's leader, has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Cardiff for having threatened to throw a seaman into the dock if he signed on for a certain ship. WOOLLEN MILLS BURNED. London, September 5. The Cambrian woollen mills at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, have been burnt. The damage is estimated at £BO,OOO. A MOVING WOOD. London, September 5. Part of the Bassett Wood, Glamorganshire, four hundred yards in extent, is moving bodily down the steep hillside.