GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 103, 17 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SUSPECTED SPIES, By Gable—Press Association —Copyright. London, September 15. Three Germans were arrested for photographing at Dover, but satisfactory explanations were tendered, and they were released. FRENCH RUFFIANS. Paris, September 15. Two ruffians were sentenced to . two months' imprisonment at Beziers for saturating a dog with petroleum and setting light to it. The dog set a child on fire, who died from the effects. The public prosecutor demands that the Court of Appeal should inllict a heavier sentence. MEAT FOR AMERICA. New York, September 15. The press of San Francisco, discussing the high price of meat, advocates the lowering of duties on 'frozen meat. Australia and New Zealand could be laid under contribution if Congress could be induced to lower the tariffs. EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY. . Constantinople, September 15. Four more earthquakes linve occurred, the longest lasting seventy seconds. No damage was done, though many of the populace were panic-stricken and spent the night in the open air. AN AIR COLLISION. New York, September 15. At Chicago, an aviator named Howard Gill, who was flying in darkness, #ollided in mid-air with Mestaeh, a Frenchman. He fell and was killed. Mestaeh is unconscious, but is recovering. PREVENTIVE DETENTION. London, September 15. The regulations for criminals in the preventive detention prison at Camphill, Isle of Wight, allow inmates newspapers and tobacco, abolish the convict garb, and provide for a system of parole, intermediate between custody and discharge, to facilitate re-entry into ordinary life. MOTOR BOAT RACING. New York, September 15. j At a regatta at Niagara, the motor- ] boat Baby Reliance 11., owned by J. Stuart Blackton, Brooklyn, lowered tihe world's record by over a minute in winning the 25-miles international interlake championship, at the rate of 46.15 miles per hour. I RIOT AT A FOOTBALL MATCH. : London, September 15. I In a riot at a football match at | Belfast, sixty were injured, five being ! wounded by revolver shots. The .Roman Catholic supporters of the players | hoisted a green flag, and the Protesti ants, under a Union Jack, fiercely attacked tliem. Stone-throwing was genI eral, and the police subdued the riot I only after many baton charges. TORPEDO BOAT SUNK. I Berlin, September 15. ' ' During the naval manoeuvres a tor- | pedo boat sank after a collision with i the battleship Zahringen, and five men '.were drowned. I | TREASURE TROVE. I Durban, September 15. | Some natives unearthed a bag of six hundred sovereigns in the bank of the i Klip river. It is supposed they were j buried during the siege of Ladysmith. [ THE PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS. Lisbon, September 15. j An agreement has been signed be- | tween the Spanish and Portuguese GovI emments for the expulsion of Portuguese ! Royalist conspirators from Spain, and the trial of the conspirators, subject to Spanish law. j WIRELESS FOR " SUBMARINES. | Paris, September 15. ' \ The French submarines are being j fitted with wireless telegraphy. I A PRISONER RELEASED, j Paris, September 15. TUissett, who was. it is alleged, wrongfully sentenced to imprisonment for life while attached to the French army in Morocco, 'has been released. CURE OF CANCER. Berlin, September 15. ; At a conference of medical men I specialising in women's diseases, there j was a consensus of opinion that surgery : was the only effective panacea for cancer. I 1 THERE'S MANY A SLIP. ) Berlin, September 15. Walter Snell. an ex-judge of the Dresden Court, was charged with having obtained £3OOO by false pretences. He pleaded that .he had hoped to redeem himself by marrying an American heiress. A BATTLESHIP LAUNCHES. London, September 15. The Countess Lytton launched the battleship Audacious at Birkenhead. FIGHTING IN MANCHURIA. ~ St. Petersburg, September 15. j Chinese advices state that the third division of the army has left Paotinsfu for Manchuria, to operate against the Mongols. AN ASSASSINATION. St. Petereburg, September 15. Colonel Lupakoff, head of the political police, has been assassinated in daylight in a street of Piatigorsk,' in the Caucasus. The assassin escaped. THE RAILWAY COLLISION. Melbourne, September 16. The railway collision claimants for compensation'have now swelled to 360.