GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 143, 4 November 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Australian' Cable Service)

TWENTIETH DREADNOUC TIT.

BRITAIN'S FORMIDABLE FLEET.

London, October 23,

The battleship Marlborough, which was launched at Devonport to-day, makes the twentieth ship of the Dreadnought class of which the British Navy is now in possession. NICKEL STEEL BATTERY. EDISON'S GREAT INVENTION. London, October 23. The nickel-steel storage battery, on which Mr. Edison has been at work for ten years, is completed at last. It is described as a perfect invention, and the general belief is that it is destined to revolutionise certain phases ol transportation. The battery, in the production of which the famous inventor spent not less than £600,000, is now being operated successfully on special trains running between New York and Long Beach. In the trials as far as they have gone everything has worked most smoothly.

JEALOUS SWEETHEART'S REVENGE.

New York, October 23,

At Cordon, Oregon, Miss Virgie Hart, a pretty young society girl, was shot dead on the eve of her wedding with George MoDanill, an engineer. Bob Morgan, an 18-year-old prodigal, is the girl's murderer, and he is still at large. He was once her sweetheart.

A DOUBLE CENTURY,

MAHER 101—WOOTTON 100,

London, October 23,

Frank Wootton has registered his 100 th win for the season, but nevertheless has not recovered his place at the head of the list of winning jockeys. That position is retained by Danny Maher, who went to the front during Wootton's suspension, and has now 101 wins to his credit. Statistics show that favorites win once in six times in England.

SYNTHETIC MEAT,

LATEST IN ARTIFICIAL FOODS.

London, October 23.

' An interesting exhibit of synthetic meat is now being shown in the Strand. Meat produced by this process can be either roasted or boiled, and is declared to possess twice as much nourishment as the ordinary article. Beef can be produced at just half what it usually costs.