GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 106, 20 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE COMET. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 10, 9/20 p.m. Sydney, September 19. The Government Astronomer, commenting on the suggestion that the comet is not new. but that discovered by Westplial in IH.V2. says that it is too early to attempt any comparison of the two, but if the elements computed aTC even approximately correct it cannot be Westphal's. HOTEL HOURS. Received ID. 10 p.m. Adelaide, September 19. A Bill to bring the no-license principle into operation, limiting the hours the hotels may be open from eight in the morning until eight at night, was negatived by "21 to 8. THE DUKE OF CONNAUfiHT. Vancouver. September IP. The Duke of Connaught has concluded his Atlantic-to-Pacific tour. He was highly pleased with-the evidence of loyalty _ and impressed with the country's marvellous expansion. IRISH RIOTING. Received 20, 1.5 a.m. London, September 10. , Several houses were wrecked and looted by hooligans while the Unionist Club was parading in the Snndyrow district in Belfast. The police batoned the looters. SOUTH AFRICAN STEAMER SERVICE. London _ September 10. Renter reports that the South African mail contract provides for a subsidy of £171.000 on a voyage of sixteen days fifteen hours, reducible to sixteen days by payment of an additional £19,000, the Admiralty to be at liberty to hire or purchase the fleet. THE ARMY MANOEUVRES. Received 10, 11.10 p.m. London, September 19. At the manoeuvres at Newmarket a backfire blew out the breech. One of the gunners was blown off, and another injured in the face. The manoeuvres terminated with neither side having any great advantage. The Red cavalry captured the whole of the Blue mounted transports.

THE EASTBOURNE TRAGEDY. London, September 19. A verdict of murder and felo de se was returned in the Money tragedy. [A London cablegram of August 20 says: The Eastbourne murderer has been identified as Robert Henry Money, whose sister was mysteriously killed in a railway tunnel at Murstei'ham 1905. There is no evidence that Money was connected with the Army.] MEAT FOR THE CONTINENT. Berlin, September 19. A conference of municipalities urged the Federal Council to facilitate the importation of frozen meat, amplifying inspection and modifying the duties. Reuter states tliat a British-German shipping line is being organised for the import of Australian meat. The. first German steamer will bring ten thousand sheep. FALSE PRETENCES. Berlin, September 19. Snell was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and three years exclusion from office. Snell confessed that he had pledged his salary for sixteen years ahead. fA Berlin cable dated September 15 says: Walter Snell, an ex-judge of tne Dresden Court, was charged with having obtained £3OOO by false pretences. He pleaded that he had boped to redeem himself by marrying an American heiress.] SUFFRAGETTE RIOTS. Budapesth. September 19. Further universal suffragette demonstrations have occurred. During the rioting two hundred were injured, 24 seriously. Eighty have been arrested. 'fix? mob stopped trains and piled up and burned the cars. The police were stoned. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. Tokio. September 19. Prince Arthur of Connaught has been invested by the Mikado with the Order of the Garter. A DIRIGIBLE BURNED. Tokio. September 29. A new army dirigible was burned at Yokohama. An escape of gas ignited it. " AFRICA'S MINERAL WEALTH.! .' Capetown, September 19. The mineral output for 1911 is valued at £-17,079.294. an increase of over four millions.

INCREASED DUTIES . Capetown, .September lfl. The Chambers of Congress at Maritzburg passed a resolution by forty to four against the Industries Commission's reeommedations to increased duties. AFRICAN DEFENCE. Capetown, September 19. General Hart states that the conference between General Smuts and the military authorities drafted a defence scheme which is satisfactory. In a few years there will be but a small expenditure. LABOR AND POLITICS. Paris, September 19. The Congress of the general federation of labor passed a resolution proclaiming the Confederation's absolute independence of political parties, and prohibiting political action within trades unions. A HOT GARDES PARTY. Lisbon, September 19. A political discussion between Royalist and Republican guests at a garden party ended in a light with revolvers and stilettos. Five were killed and thirty wounded.