GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 241, 1 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AGRA MURDER TRIAL. By Cable-Press Association- •( (>}•,yriylil. Delhi, February 27. At the trial of Mrs. Allium anil Clark the prosecution stated that 400 of Mrs. Fulham's letters had been found. Clark endorsed each as answered. She destroyed all Clark's except one. It is now stated thai (lark hypnotised her. HUGE GERMAN' EXPENDITURE. Berlin, February 27. Some authorities estimate that the new Army Bill will involve the expenditure of an additional sum of £10,000,000. The press foreshadow difficulties in the Reichstag over the Bill.' Imperial and Prussian loans, aggregating twenty million sterling, are pending, which will be chiefly expended on railway construction. OUSTING I'OLIPK GRAFTERS. New York, February 27. Bills are pending to rid the Stale of police grafters. Mayor Oaynor alleged that before he became Mayor, it was the usual thing for the heads of the police departments to leave office millionaires. INDIAN" PENAL CODE. Delhi, February 27. A Bill promulgated assimilates the provisions of the Indian Penal Code to those of English law. It makes conspiracy a substantive offence. An explanatory memorandum dwells on the existence of dangerous conspiracies and the inadequacy of the existing law. ) - i UNHAPPY PERSIA. Teheran, February 27. Green, a railway surveyor, was robbed on the Bunder Abbas road, whore tribesmen also looted 500 camels. BELGIAN 'ARMY BILK Brussels. February 27. The Army Bill doubles the strength of the army in I'JIS, increasing the strength to 300,000. ' "• FRENCH DEFENCE. Paris. February 27. The Government lias introduced in the Chamber a Defence Bill providing for the expenditure of £20.000.000. PLAGUE IN SIBERIA. St. Petersburg, February 27. Nine cases of Siberian plague are reported in a tailor's workshop. The disease was contracted from furs. AUSTRALIAN SUCCESSION. I Vienna, February 27. I The Donau Zeitung states that' Prince | Francis Ferdinand is suffering from lung ) complaint, and a change in the law of 5 succession is likely. His wife is working i in favor of her sons, who have no presI ent claim to the throne.

A NAVAL CODE EPISODE. London, February 27. Wilheln'i Claire has been remanded on a charge of attempting to seenre a secret naval code at Plymouth. He had been under observation for a year. He had active correspondence with Brussels and Berlin. A DIPLOMATIC AFFAIR. Washington, February 27. The Senate has conceded the appointment of Mr. Irwin Lougliliii as secretary in the Embassy in London, thus avoiding leaving the United States practically unrepresented at the Court of St. James.