GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 157, 20 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE MYSTERIOUS AIRSHIP. ; By Cable—Pres* A»»ociation—Copyright. London, November 18. Government replies! showed that neither the War Ofl'iee nor the Admiralty had any definite information of the Zeppelin dirigible supposed to have been seen over Sheerness. Mr. Churchill has promised to make inquiries. THE STOLEN CROWN JEWELS. London, November 18. Sir Rufus Isaacs declined, while the charge on which Francis Richard Shack - leton was arrested is still sub judice, to inform Mr. Ginnell whether Shackleton had access to the room in Dublin Castle from which the Crown jewels were stolen in 1906, or whether he subsequently boasted he would not be prosecuted, as his conviction would involve others. BRITISH STATESMEN TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. London, November 18. Much interest is being evinced in the visit to Australia of statesmen and members of the House of Commons. The visit, if possible, will be made in 1913. The London branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, who are arranging with the Australian branch, are taking steps to ensure the presence of some of the best known men at Westminster. ARREST OF A SPY. I London, November 18. ; George Charles Parrott, a dismissed ! gunner recently attached to the warship Pembroke, has been remanded at the Westminster Police Court. Evidence was given that accused was shadowed since July, owing to correspondence and telegrams. He was seen to meet a foreigner at Ostend and was arrested while fetching a letter from a tobacconist's shop in Chelsea. The letter contained £lO as travelling expenses, and the sender begged him to Inquire into the movements of the fleet.

THE LAW OF LIBEL. London, November 18. The House of Lords has decided that Vacher and Sons, printers, are unable to sue the London Society of Compositors for libel during a trade dispute. FRAUDULENT USE OF MAILS. New York, November 18. Julian Hawthorn, .Tosialt Quincy. ex-Assistant-Secretary of State, and others, have been indicted for using the mails with intent to defraud. The case involves 3,000,000 dollars of stocks sold in mining ventures. THE AUSTRIAN NAVY. London. November IS. The Pall Mall Gazette points nut that Austria in If) 15, with the completion of the three Dreadnoughts just sanctioned, will have seven in the Mediterranean, besides three vessels corresponding to our Lord Nelsons.

BLOODHOUND DETECTIVES. I Lonrlon, November IS. > Bloodhounds tracked Benjamin Ckant •' to a domicile at Westbornn. Sussex, I where he was arrested for incendiarism.