GENERAL GABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 156, 19 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL GABLES.

GERMAN DEFENCE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Berlin, November 17. In its forecast of 1913, the Budget of Naval Estimates provides an increase of 1(1,000,000 marks for recurring expenditure and 21,500,000 for non-recurring. THE CHINESE MINISTRY. Pekin, November 17. Luchinghsiatin has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. He hopes to substitute a new Russo-Chinese treaty for the Russo-Mongolian treaty. ANGLO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION BILL. New York, November 17. President Tuft, speaking at the Lotus Club, said his chief regret in relinquishing office was that he would be unable to influence the Senate to pass the AngloAmerican Arbitration Bill. EGYPTIAN ANARCHIST SENTENCED. Cairo, November 17. Ahmer Mukhtar, the Nationalist who was arrested in August with revolutionist placards, violently appealing to the Egyptians to rise against the British occupation of Alexandria, has been sentenced to ton years' imprisonment. AN ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE. London, November 17. J Two girls, named Nicholson and ColI linson, aged seven and nine years, were waylaid and murdered at Kimbenvortb under" atrocious circumstances. A NEW BOGEY. London, November 17. Notice has been given in the House of Commons of questions respecting the supposed nocturnal visit of a foreign airship to Sheerness. KRUPPS' GUNS, i Berlin, November 17. The Cologne Gazette, which is nettled at the suggestion that Krtipps are inferior to Creusots, states that the Bulgarians are careful to use Krupps' am- ) munition instead of French powder. j A LIGHTHOUSE DESTROYED. Adelaide, November 18. i The steamer Dimsdale, from Baliia (Brazil), collided with the lighthouse on the Wonga Shoals. The structure fell with a. crash and disappeared in - the water. Two lighthouse keepers perished. The vessel was undamaged. The loss is estimated at £20,000.