GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 158, 21 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

IMPERIAL EDUCATION". By Cable —PreM Association—-Copyright. London, November 19. • A meeting of the advisory committee of the Imperial Education Conference, including Sir George Reid, Hon. T. Mackenzie, and the Agents-General, discussed the procedure. CZAR'S MOVEMENTS. St. Petersburg, November 19. The Czar and family have arrived at Tsarskoye-Selo. WINDFALL FOR 1 A HOSPITAL. London, November 19. A lady has anonymously given Cardinal Bourne £50,000 for the erection of a Roman Catholic Hospital at Dollis Hill. RAILWAY FATALITY. New York, November 19. Six persons were killed and six persons injured >by a head-on collision by special trains in North Carolina. The cars were reduced to matchwood. The collision was caused by the engineer confusing ordors. TIN-PLATE MILLS CLOSED. London, November 19. Owing to the war stopping consignments to the Levant, ten tin-plate mills at Swansea have closed. THE BATTLESHIP NEW ZEALAND. London, November 19. The battleship New Zealand has been commissioned and is being completed at Devonport for sea service. MONGOL RAIDERS . I Pekin, November 19. I ' Mongols invaded Kaila, within the j Chili provinces. Chinese refugees are crowding into Kalman'. Many Chinese troop trains are proceeding northwards. THE MARCONI INQUIRY, i London. November 19. At the Marconi select committee's inI qiury, Sir D. Graaf said that South Africa adhered to the -Imperial scheme because Marconi was the only system to cover the distances. They would have withdrawn from the Imperial scheme if J it had involved experiments and delay. A CAFE BRAWL. Vienna, November 19. A fashionable cafe at Leoserg was filled with officers and students. A student demanded an apology from a captain for staring at them, which was refused. The student ,drawing a revolver, wounded the captain, who, drawing his sword, inflicted a gash in the student's skull. Others, including the military, joined in the fray and several were badly hurt. The two principals are in a critical coni dition. ] JACK JOHNSON. New York, November 19. 1 The abduction charge against Jack j Johnson at Chicago has been dismissed. j THE ROSENTHAL MURDER. 5 New York, November 19. "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty" Louis, Frtink ] Cirofici and "Whiter" Louis were found I guilty of the Rosenthal murder and senj tenced to electrocution.