GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 144, 5 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE RUBBER OUTRAGES. ly Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Lima, November 3. Senor Billinglmrst is punishing the authors of the Putumayo outrages. Lieteuant Velefcdevilla has been arrested for complicity. THE DUTCH EAST INDIES. The Hague, November 3. The Government is considering the expenditure of £4,500,000 to provide for the naval defence and fortification of the Dutch Indies. POLAR EXPEDITION WRECKED. St. Petersburg, November 3. Advices from Archangel, which are not confirmed, report that the steamer Bkoka, with Sjedoff's polar expedition,, has been wrecked. A BATTLESHIP ACCIDENT. New York, November 3. Two bluejackets arc dead and four were scalded by a boiler blowing out on the battleship Vermont, in Hampton Roads. The disaster is believed to bo due to the water in the boiler running low.

LI HUNG CHANG'S DIARY. London November 3.

In Li Hung Chang's diary he States that Bismarck told him that the time was coming when" the Germans would dominate Europe. England realised that a conflict with a Power nearly her equal would mean England's undoing. Bismarck added: "I hate those boasting Englanders."

THE BELFAST RIOTS. London November 3.

'The Crown entered a nolle prosequi against 'the men arrested for the July disturbances in Belfast, but they were rearrested on a magistrate's warrant.

The Crown solicitor demanded that the case should be heard by the magistrate instead of eight justices, declaring that the bench was packed. The police, acting on the Crown's instruction, refused to produce the prisoners, and the hearing was adjourned.

A COLLISION AT SEA. London November 3,

The Norwegian steamer Noreugia colI lided with the ship Glenlui near Cape Hatteras, and was forced to anchor in the teeth of a 45-niile per hour gale. The steamer sprung a leak in two holds. One hold is flooded, and the vessel is in a bad way. Two battleships were called to her assistance by wireless telegraphy.

A MOTOR BRIGADE. London November 3.

Five hundred drivers of motor lorries and motor cars have responded to the War Office appeal to form a civilian corps in London.

PROPOSED STRIKE OF BAKERS. London November 3.

The bakers are arranging to take a ballot as to a strike before Christmas on the subject of wages and hours.

A BERESFORD IN GAOL. I London November 3. J Tristram de la Peer Beresford, an • ex-naval officer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for wounding a j fellow-lodger at Paignton, in a board- ■ ing-house quarrel.

DALGETY AND COMPANY. London November 3,

Dalgety and Company's annual report shows a'profit of £274,155. A dividend of 8 per cent .is declared, £fiO,OOO carried to the reserve, £40.000 written down on premises, £IO,OOO devoted to staff benevolent fund, and £84,155 carried forward.

AMERICAN SCHOONER LOST. | New York, November 3. ! The schemer John Maxwell has been j wrecked in a gale on the coast of Virj giaia. The crew of six perished.

FATAL CARTRIDGE EXPLOSION. Berlin, November 3.

j A cartridge exploded during mining ) practice at Keil, killing a naval officer I and a sailor and injuring two others.

ST. LOUIS HOTEL BURNED. New York, Nove.nDer 3. A fire destroyed the Berlin Hole!, St. Louis. One man was killed md several other guests injured. Three had fractured skulls. The inmates m a .panic fled in their nightclotlies.

SEVERE STORM IN CANADA. Ottawa, November 3.

It is reported that the Montreal steamer Cecilia sank off <he i;le of Perrot and twenty persons vere crowned. A hurricane is raging in ihe St .Lawrence and on the great iaksfi.

VICTORIAN FRUIT TRADE.

Melbourne, November 4.

The State Government was negotiating for a direct service to Hull during the fruit season, but failed, owing to the available space having been secured by private persons.