GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 131, 21 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 20, 5.5 p.m. London, October 19. Fourteen cows liuve developed fool and mouth disease at Mullingar. A CHINESE RIOT. Tientsin, October 18. . Rioters fired on members of the Shensi Provincial Assembly, wounding several. OIL FOR WARSHIPS. London, October JS. The Admiralty has ordered from Vickers and Maxim marine oil engines to be fitted in a vessel 360 feet long, with oil tanks to carry 8000 tons of oil. in order to supply warships at sea. THE BREWERS' EXHIBITION. London, Octo'osr IN. The brewers' exhibition opened on Saturday. PASSIVE RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN. London, October 18. The Daily NAws says that Dr. Clifford, the well-known Baptist preacher, is 'organising for 1913 a passive resistance campaign throughout the country on the education question. AN ABSCONDING BROKER. Brussels, October 18. Henri Wilmarts, the brother of 'Urt absconding broker, 'has been arrested on j a charge of complicity in his frauds. J Wilmarts is supposed to have embezzled : £2,500,000.

TAXATION ON LAND .VALUES. London, October 18. The United Committee of taxation of land values has received £250 from Australian supporters. RUNNING AMOK. ' London, October 18. Tiltus, who ran amok, killing one person and wounding four others, has been committed for trial. ' MR. ASQUITH'S ILLNESS. London, October 18. Mr. Asquith will undergo a slight operation at the week-end for the removal of a growth in his shoulder. FIRE AT BANBURY. London, October 18. A fire broke out in Samuelson's agricultural engineering works at Banbury, the damage being estimated at £OO,OOO. Two hundred people are out of work. HORSE-DOPING. Paris, October 18. As the result of Professor Kauffmann's examination of saliva, the Jockey Club have disqualified three horses for doping. They were unable to prove the responsibility of the trainers. THE PAPUAN RUBBER CASE. Sydney, October 10. In the Papuan rubber case, in which Joseph Cox and John George Altaian, directors of the Papuan Rubber and Trading Company, were charged with conspiracy to falsify the prospectus and 1 balance-sheet, defendants were committed for trial.