GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 279, 17 April 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

RECENT MURDER CASE,

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Berlin, April 15.

Elsie Heinrichs, the maidservant who gave evidence as to a murder by her lover, has been relased.

CLUB SWINGING,

London, April 15,

Tom Burrows, the champion club swinger, commenced a hundred hours' exhibition with Indian clubs at Aldershot to-day.

A WATER-PLANER'S DEATH.

Paris, April 15,

Disregarding an official prohibition, owing to bad weather, Gaudart waterplaned at Monte Carlo and was plunged into the sea and drowned. '

DAMAGE TO VINEYARDS. Berne, April 15. Frost caused damage to vines estimated at £BOOO.

LONDON UNIVERSITY. London, April 15.

The report of the Royal Commission on London University says that the institution is fundamentally defective, and is incapable of developing on its present lines.

STANDARD OIL COMPANY PROSECUTED. New York, April 15. The Texas State Attorney has started a suit against the Standard Oil Trust to recover a hundred million dollars, for alleged violation of the State's antitrust law. Mr. Archbold has been subpoenaed.

JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA. Tokio, April 15,

Owing to President Wilson refraining from action in California, Japan will present a test case in the Supreme Court to prove that Japanese are not of Mongolian origin and are therefore entitled to citizenship in California.