GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 201, 14 January 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

PRESIDENT FALLIERES. London, January 1. President Fallicries gave his iinal reci ption at the Elysee in Paris to-night. It was a brilliant function. Making his farewell speech, the President said that France would lieviff cease to take a preeminent part in the developmental work of civilisation, and would always labor for the maintenance and consolidation of Ihe good relations between the nations. Farewell telegrams from the Sovereigns of Europe were sent to the retiring President. FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER. London, January 4. The German military authorities are constructing a fort on the heights of Horimont. It will be one of the most powerful defensive works round the town of Metz. The French frontier is only six miles distant, and the French industrial centres of Jouef, Aubone and Homecourt will be easily within the range of the big guns of the fort. ALU-MINIUM FACE MASK. London, January 4. A man in Paris, who had part of, his face blown away by the explosion of a shell, lias been supplied with an aluminium mask, which is held in position toy an invisible piece of mechanism. Tke mask has been moulded into the exact shape of a face, even to the wrinkles, and has been painted flesh color by a special process. It extends from the eyebrows almost to the chin. SPRINTING IN ENGLAND.

London, January 2. Jack Donaldson, the Victorian sprinter, did 4 yards inside even, off scratch, in a 120 yards dash at the Powder Hall Grounds, Sheffield, but was beaten in his heat. Bombardier Wells, who is ;i runner as well as a fighter, won his heat off the ten yards mark in 13 l-ssec. SIBERIAN WOMEN DOCTORS. London, January 4. The Russian Curator of Universities! has petitioned for the admission of women to the medical course at the Tomsk University, owing to the scarcity of male students. The privilege has been granted, provided that it will be restricted temporarily to girls born in Siberia. BOGUS WEDDING PRESENT. London, January 4. A young couple at Liverpool, who had just been married, received a letter' which contained two tickets for the theatre, but unaccompanied 'by the name of the donor. Thinking thp tickets were an anonymous wedding present, they went to the theatre. When they came home they found that their house had been burgled. SPURIOUS TITLES. \ London, January 1, Many persons throughout the world pose as holders of British titles when they have no right at all to such titles. The College of Heralds is now preparing i an official list of the nobility to prevent any imposition. AUTONOMOUS EGYPT. London, January I. The Italian papers assert that as-' a result of interviews between Lord Kitchener and the Khedive, a scheme has been formulated, and will be brought into force as soon as peace in the Balkans is concluded, granting autonomy to Egypt. England will communicate with the other European Powers, reaffirming her military occupation of the country. DRIFT ICE. London, January 4. Negotiations are proceeding between British and Continental shipping companies with the idea of making rules that shall change the track of vessels crossing the Atlantic Ocean, so as to avoid the region of drift-ice. IGNORANT SCHOOL CHILDREN. London, January 4. An official speaking to-day before the Schools' Conference, said that 5 per cent, of the children admitted to the hospitals of Great Britain had never learned to read and write, and another 5 per cent, had forgotten soon after leaving what they had learned at school. INTELLECTUAL ARISTOCRACY. London, January 4. Speaking at an education conference at Nottingham yesterday, the Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. Lee Hicks') observed that the intellectual aristocracy of the university towns was a healthy corrective to the vulgar aristocracy of wealth which had superseded the old aristocracy of birth.

PRINCE ALBERT GOES TO SEA. London. January 1. The cruiser Cumberland, with Prince Albert, the King's second son, on board, will leave Plymouth on January 18 for the West Indies. NEW YORK STREET ACCIDENTS. New York, January 3. Street accidents in New York in 1912 caused the death of 532 persons, of whom 230 were children. In the same period 2363 were injured. CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE. London. January 4. _ Dr. H. jVI. Butler, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, urges that the teaching of the classics should be. limited to those who are able to profit from them. ONE-HANDED PIANIST. London, September 4. Evelyn Webb, a, one-handed pianist,; has won silver and -bronze medals at the London College of Msic examination.