GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 229, 15 February 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A BRILLIANT SIIOW.

By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, London, February 13.

Tlic. King will open the Royal Agricultural Show .it Bristol in July, the Lord Mayor of Bristol is* inviting the I'remiers and (iovernors of all the States and Dominions. The Commonwealth is arranging for a special display.

JAPANESE POLITICS. London, February 13.

Renter's Tokio agent states that Prince Yamamoto has acceptcd_ the coalition Premiership. This _ indicates an advance in the nation's political evolution, the downfall of the elder statesmen's iulluence, and the diminution of the prestige of the Crown.

ASSAULTED BY THE POLICE. London, February 13,

Constables Wetherill and Smith were sentenced to twelve months', and Constable Brooks to fours months' at Old Bailey, for assaulting a linotype operator and his wife who were waiting for a tram in the early morning at lloxton.

PROTEST AGAINST SOCIALISM. London, February 13.

Mr. Peter Coatcs, of Paisley, alleging the socialism of recent legislation, has revoked his bequests of £SOOO each to the local infirmaries.

THE CROWN JEWEL ROBBERY. London, February 13.

Mr. Birrell. replying to a question in the House of Commons, said it was a cruel outrage to associate Lord Haddo, son of Lord Aberdeen, the Irish Viceroy, with the disappearance of the Crown jewels, as Lord Haddo was absent from Ireland months before and after the robbery.

COUNTERFEITING IN GAOL. Cairo, February 15,

The superintendent of the Delta Prison has heen sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, and eighteen convicts and warders to terms ranging from three to seven years for wholesale counterfeit coining in the prisons.

THE PURCHASE OF SILVER. London, February 13,

The Premier justified the India Office purchasing silver through Montagu and Co., but announced that a Royal Commission would investigate the finances of the department.