GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 299, 10 May 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A SATISFACTORY TEST. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 8. Torpedo and submarine ship-cleaners' experiments were carried out on the battleship Bulwark at Portsmouth in the presence of Admiralty officials, and proved highly satisfactory., THE MEXICAN REBELLION. Mexico City, May 8. At Nogales the rebels dynamited a troop train on the Sonora Coahuilia line, and 230 Federal regulars were killed. THE BRAZILIAN LOAN. London, May 8. The underwriters received over 90 per cent of the Brazilian loan.. THE OPIUM-TRADE. London, May 8. Mr. Montague, Parliamentary UnderSecretary for India, announced in the House of Commons tO'dEyi that India this year was not selling to China an ounce of opium. Hie Government wasprepared to relinquish,'the .revenue of £11,000,000 which it had.''brought in, by revising the treatyof . 1911, provided that China steadfastly: extinguished opium growing. ■,/. AN ANARCHIST PLOT. Paris, May S. Beyond isolated cries of "Vive Ferrer" the anarchists' threatened demonstration against King Alfonso did not materialise. The police arrested 21 Spaniards prior to the King's arrival. STATE-OWNED CABLES. London, May 8. Mr. Herbet Samuel, Postmaster General, will visit Canada in the autumn in connection with the proposed State-owned Atlantic cable to link up with the Pacific cable. He will attend the subsidiary conference on defence. A NEAT FRAUD. Berlin, May 8. Sclmfter, a lottery promoter was sentenced to two years for fraud. He acquired a fortune by whining the principal prizes himself. A SHOOTING CASE. Sydney, May 9. Hatton, who shot <a girl named Coghlan in a bar and then shot himself, has been acquitted on a charge of shooting with intent to do grevious bodily harm. He stated that the girl snatched the revolver from him, and it went off accidentally. The girl told the same story.