GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 128, 17 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN EMBEZZLER SENTENCED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, October 15. Lepreux, a clerk of the .Sue/, Canal Company, who was arrested in March for fraudulent appropriation of £BO,OOO worth of shares, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. A DISAPPEARING- D.I RECTOR. Brussels. October 15. A director of the Belgian Railway Company ilias disappeared after issuing £50,000 of worthless scrip. An accomplice has been arrested. THE BATTLESHIP NEW ZEALAND. London, October 15. The battleship cruiser, New Zealand, lias had remarkably successful trials, attaining a speed of 27 knots, the fastest rate reached by a battleship of her displacement (10,000 tons). A NARROW ESCAPE. New York, October 15. The steamer San Francisco, loaded with a cargo of explosives intended for the fleet's use, narrowly escaped colliding with the Government yacht, on wihioh were the Navy Secretary and other high officials. A disaster was avoided by a few feet. If the vessels had hit one another, the captains admitted' that nothing could have prevented the entire destruction of both. ! MILITARY TRAINING. J Melbourne, October 10. | The High Court has decided that re.ligious scruples cannot be pleaded for exemption from .military training, as there are no duties connected with the J system which non-combatants can perform.

STATE LOTTERIES. Sydney. October -10. In the Assembly, Mr. Osborne moved and Mr. Black seconded a motion, that a referendum be taken at the next general election on the question of establishing a State lottery. The debate was adjourned.