GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 110, 25 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADIAN NAVAL RESERVE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 24, 0.55 p.m. Ottawa, September 24. Mr. George Doughty, interviewed, said the Government 'had in view the immigrating of English fishermen to populate the Pacific coast and form ultimately the nucleus of a Canadian naval reserve.

A CENTENARIAN. Sydney. September 24. Mrs. Lehane. aged 108, died at Young. Her descendants have reached the fifth generation. A PLAGUE CURE. Received 25. 12.15 a.m. Washington, September 23. At the Hygiene Congress Dr. Novy. of Michigan University, announced the discovery of a new micro-organism likely to be of great value in eradicating the bubonic plague.

DISASTROUS HAILSTORM. Madrid, September 24. A hailstorm destroyed the Alcera orange fields. Damage was done to the extent of £250,000. A PRISON REVOLT. St. Petersburg. September 24. A protest is issued against criminals receiving thirty lashes. Forty political prisoners at Nertoinik prison, in Siberia, have started a hunger strike. Four committed suicide, two opening their veins, and two taking poison. AN INDIGENT INVENTOR. Paris. September 24. Tellier, the inventor of cold storage, is living in indigence at Auteuil. A subscription has been opened for his assistance. NOT PLAYING THE GAME. Berlin, September 24. The entire Gth Company of the Ist Footguards, to the number of 120, are being tried at Potsdam for cheating in the contest for the Kaiser's Prize. The contestants were allowed thirty cartridges apiece, but suspicions were aroused, and when the Gth Company was searched 1700 excess cartridges ' were found hidden in their boots and bread wallets.

LORD KITCHENER. London. September 24. The Manchester Guardian says that Lord Kitchener has come to England for an operation on the leg, which was broken in Tndia. The surgeons deprecated its being re-broken, and advised that it had better be left for a time. Lord Kitchener will return to Egypt on October 3. A HANDSOME LEGACY. London. September 24. Isabella Shillinglaw and Eliza Shillinglaw, domestic servants in Scotland, have inherited .01.0(10 from their uncle, Andrew Shillinglaw, a New Zealandor. THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. London, September 24. The Bank of Australasia shows: Deposits eiN.irifi.r)27. cash securities. £7.SS2.2:N. bills .f17.(1(1.")..'1."i:'i.