GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 9, 11 June 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD. TREE COFFIN PLOUGHED UP. London, May 30. One of the ' farm laborers on Lord Armstrong's estate at Rothbury, Northumberland, was ploughing yesterday, when he rooted up a very ancient " relic in the shape of a tree coffin, which is supposed to be 2000 years old. A careful examination of the old shell was made, and although only a few teeth were found this was sufficiently convincing proof that the coffin had at some time contained a human body. ; ALEXANDRA DAY. TWENTY MILLION ROSES.Lond.on, May 80. Alexandra Day will again be celebrated I this year with a sale of roses, of which 20,000,000 will be available for disposal. On that day it is expected that 20,000 women flower sellers will be in the streets of London, all dressed in white, and wearing in their hats wreaths of wild roses. ■ ** The main.feature of the days' attractions will be a procession of decorated motor cars. The proceeds of the celebration will be devoted to the charities in which the Queen-Mother is so deeply [ interested. WILD SCENES IN BERLIN. ■■■ THE ROYAL WEDDING. Berlin; May 30. Wild scenes were witnessed yesterday during the exhibition of Princess Victoria's bridal costume and weddihg*presents in the Museum of Arts. The womenfolk simply tore the dresses off one another's backs in their rush to get into the building. Hatpins, parasols, , .finger-nails and teeth were all used as weapons, the worst offenders being the employees, of the fashionable modistes. So serious did the situation become at one stage that the police reserves had to be summoned, and it was not until after chaos had reigned for an hour that anything like order was restored. DEALING WITH TRAITORS. BETRAYAL OF MILITARY SECRETS.

Berlin, May 30. The Government has introduced in the Reichstag a Bill under which the present punishment for the betrayal of military secrets is to be made much severer. A feature of the proposed legislation is that it provides for penalties for the publication of any news that ought to be kept secret in the interests of national defence, and even the drastic punishment of imprisonment for life is threatened in those cases in which the disclosure of secrets involves great danger to the empire. JUMPED TO HIS DEATH. PLUCKY AIRMAN'S FUTILE ACT. London,-May 30. A British army aviator, Lieutenant Arthur, was making reconnaisance flights in a biplane at Montrose, in Scotland, to-day, and when at a height of 2000 ft, one.of the wings of his machine suddenly collapsed. The biplane fell swiftly, but Lieutenant Arthur managed to unbuckle himself and jump from his seat before the machine reached the ground. He was picked up dead, his body being in a terribly mangled state. ........ PANAMA CANAL.

FRANCE MAKING PREPARATIONS. London, May 3#. Recognising the necessity for having a port of call and a coaling station in Tahiti, in view of the approaching open- , nig of the Panama Canal, the French Government intends to erect several lighthouses in the region of Papeete. Tahiti is one of the Society Islands, which was formerly annexed to France in 1880, after having been, for nearly 40 years under French "protection." FEROCIOUS YOUNG LION. ANIMAL TRAINER ATTACKED. 1 n , ■ ™ London, May 30. . I Captain Wombwell, the well-known cir- | cus proprietor and animal trainer, was '] attacked at Plymouth yesterday by a young lion, which had arrived from Af- [ nca only the previous day. I • The youngster was being broken in in I company with three older lions, when he sprang at Wombwell, and badly

I scarred the trainer's face and body.' For- ! tunately, the older animals took no part in the attack. '•■ BRADFORD STRIKERS. MORE TROUBLE WITH POLICE. "London, May 30. 1 There was renewed disorder among '. the strikers at Bradford yesterday over - the refusal of the discontented carters t to remove perishable goods, i Large quantities of meat in the butchers' shops could not be moved because 1 there were no carts to carry it, and r tljere were frequent conflicts with' the r police. J There are now 17,000 men on strike in the Birmingham district. JMODERN .YOUNG MEN. j WITH WOMEN. ' London, May 24. The Eton College Chronicle publishes . an article in its latest issue on "The Modern Young Man." i "Nowhere can he be surpassed," says the article, "in the precision with which , he administers an undeserved snub. -He commands our respect for the self-pos-session with which he will discuss a subject; of wlrjeh he is entirely ignorant. "He is magnificent in his-dealings with the opposite sex. Possibly he is less chivalrous than he might be, but he is ..not altogether to blame for that, because the modern young lady is capable of taking care of :herself*ar*d seems to revel' ! •m the, powej?<toi,doieo."' >* ..':>>'■ SWINE BEFORE CHILDREN. CAUSTIC COUNTY COUNCILLOR. ' o. ' . „ London, May 25. , fcir John Brunner, Speaking at a meet- 1 mg of the Surrey County Council yes-1 terday, said that for many years a good deal of money had been devoted to the, curing of diseases in swine. It was time he added, that this money was spent on diseases in school children Sir John considers that the death-rate i of the borough of Stepney, in the East I'.nd of London, which was returned at ten m 1000, proves that that part of' the metropolis is healthy. He pointed out that cases of longevity were common in Whitechapel and the surrounding dis-