GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 132, 22 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ARGENTINE WHEAT AREA. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, October 20. The official estimate states that 10,907,000 acres in Argentina have been sown in wheat. A JEWEL ROBBERY. London, October 20. Simmons, a fishmonger, lias been arrested in connection with the recent jewellery robbery in Edgewarc Road, when the thieves escaped in a taxicab. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, October 20. An outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Kildare is officially attributed to the straw packing of French wine*? and groceries sent to the Curragh Camp and used as litter for pigs. AN ASPHYXIATING CARTRIDGE. Paris, October 20. Successful experiments have been, made with a cartridge which, exploded in an enclosed area, asphyxiates any present, in a few seconds. It is intended to use these where bandits resist capture. INDIAN EDITOR IMPRISONED. Rangoon, October 20. Mr Arnold, editor of the Burmah Critic lias been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for defamation of , the district magistrate at Mergui, whom the paper accused of haying wrongly acquitted a British officer who was charged with the abduction of a native girl.

A STEAMER ON FIRE. New York, October 20. The steamer Berkshire,, en route from Savannah to Philadelphia with a cargo of cotton, is on fire, and the passengers are panic-stricken. The Clyde liner Apaoke is standing by, and has summoned help by wireless telegraphy.

A UNIVERSITY RIOT. New Yqrk, October 20. Many persons were injured in a riot at Campaign, Illinois. One thousand University students tried to force their way into the Opera House, but were repulsed by the police and stage hands, armed with clubs and revolvers.