GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 291, 1 May 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE GERMAN BUDGET. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, April 29. The Budget passed its third reading ! in the Reichstag. A DESPERATE OUTRAGE. Paris, April 29. Ten desperadoes attacked Chaville station. The statioumaster stoutly defended himself, and narrowly escaped the revolver shots fired. Two arrests were made. ACCIDENT AT SEA. London, April 29. . The Poonbar, bound from Glasgow to Sydney, has arrived at Holyhead with her machinery deranged. LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET. London, April 29. The Lord Mayor's, banquet to the Duke of Connaught, Master of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, has been postponed. > DECLINE JN BAPTIST CHURCH. London, April 29. The newspaper Baptist reports a decrease of two thousand members in Baptist churches and nearly five thousand in Sunday school children. A SAD ACCIDENT. Paris, April 29. Ten children at Grenoble exploded a cartridge. AH were seriously injured' and one is dying. THE TERRA NOVA. Rio de Janiero, April 29. The Terra Nova has arrived at Rio de Janeiro. ! TURF SLANDER CASE. ' London, April 29. •lames Patrick Hayes, p. trainer, sued George William Smith, a bookmaker,, of Leeds, for slander, in calling plaintiff * blackmailer. Hayes' counsel admitted that hia client had been warned off. a course in Tasmania, but was subsequently reinstated. Smith employed Hayes as trainV, but they quarrelled. A verdict was givsn for defendant, while Smith obtained £5 damages on a counter charge. SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS. • Paris, April 29. In the Old Salon the exhibitors include Messrs. Strceton, Birley, Quinn. George Bell, Norman Carter; C. Wherier. Coutts, Charles and Byrant, and Misses Marie Tuck, Isabel Tuck, Bessie Cibson. Hermina Arndt, Agnes Goodsir and Hilda Rix. GERMAN SOLDIERS ILL-TREATED. Berlin, April 29. Captain Koehler has been sentence*] to six months' detention in a fortress for forty-five cases of ill-treatment of recruits at Thorn.