GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 105, 19 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LLOYD GEORGE'S BIOGRAPHY. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, September 17. The first of the four volumes of Du Parcq's life of Mr. Lloyd George contains many characteristic incidents ot his early life, such as his refusing to repeat the Apostles' Creed at school, refusing to join a procession to church on Ash Wednesday, and persuading a school-fellow to evade confirmation. It ! also tells of his conflicts with the clergy and with Tory magistrates, when he was a solicitor. A CARRYING COMBINE. London, September 17. Carter, Patorsons,' Piekford and other leading carriers, and several railways, have agreed to a working arrangement to prevent overlapping, and also for replacing horses with motor waggons. This is likely to result in a clearing house in London for railway goods. THE PRICE OF A KISS. Madrid, September 17. •Fernandez, a Spaniard, being denied a kiss by his sweetheart, stabbed her and then shot the girl's father and mother in the streets of Saratoga. STEAMER -STRIKES A TORPEDO. Constantinople, September 17. The British steamer Barncsmore struck a stray torpedo near Salonika, | and had to be beached. OIL FUEL. London, September 17. ■lt is stated unofficially that battleships now being laid down at Devonport and Portsmouth, to be completed by Christmas, will be driven exclusively by liquid fuel. They will have storage capacity for '2500 each. HAT-PINS PROHIBITED. Paris, September 17. i The Prefect of the Department of the Rhone, in a decree prohibits hatpins in trams or theatres, or at meetings, unless the points are shielded. { THE PEGASUS STRANDED, j Stockholm, September 17. I The Pegasus was refloated, but is ) now stranded badly on the rocks near | Stockholm. EXPLOSION OF METAL. | ; London, September 18. Six persons were terribly injured in! the moulding shop of the Caledonian Railway at St. Rollox, owing to four hundredweight of. molten brass explod- ! ing. SUBSIDENCE IN A MINE. I Berlin, September 17. As the result of a subsidence at the Augusta Victoria mine at Recklinghauj sen twenty persons were killed.