GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 167, 14 January 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

MURDER R'Y A KAFFIR. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright Pretoria, January 12. A child witnessed a nativxi strangling and mutilating Mrs. Hood, a house keeper, -at Fordsburk. The iMirdc!'e.r escaped. CHINESE JOURNALIST SHOT. Shanghai, January 12. Ho, founder of the C<nnnrereial Press at Shanghai, the finest printing works in Asia, publishing annually thousands of educational works, was .shot dead in the street. The murderer was arrested. The crime was due to revenge on account of Ho inviting the municipalities to assume the. control of Chapei, a suburb, during' the rebellion in .Inly, to prevent its (becoming the headquarters of revolutionaries. l!o was a Christian and a generous employer. FIRE AT SEA. Washington, January 12. Another fire at sea is reported 'by tlio revenue cutter Miami, which found the British schooner Clcnafton in the Gulf of -Mexico. The crew's fate is unknown. It is believed Ithat an unknown merchantman, finding the fllenaitoii' derelict, set ilier a lire in order to obviato a menace to navigation. FILM. STORE DESTROYED.' London, January 32. The premises of Kinora Ltd., film manufacturers, at Le'telnrorth (larden City,' have been burned. The damage amounts' to .£:>(),Ool). it U believed the lire was due to a short circuit.

OBITUARY.' Ottawa, January 12. The death is reported of Hie Hon. David Laird, the first Commissioner for the North-West Territorities. lie negotiated many treaties with the Indians whereby large, tracts of territory were added, to tlhe Dominion. ■SAILOR'S lIAISSH TREATMENT. ■Sydney, January 13. Walter Could, an Englishman, complains that he was deprived of his occupation tis a sailj.r owing to the exelusive tactics adopted by the NewSouth Wales branch of the Fedefitted Seaman's Union in refusing liini admittance to the union because he worked on the Mnkura during (he di-pule.

I NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAY COMMISSIONER. Sydney, January 13. The Ooverninent makes no secret of I the fact that a new Uhief Commissioner |°f Railways will not he imported. j WHEAT IIAXDLIXTi. j Sydney, -Tanuarv 13. [ The Premier endorses Mr. Trefle's j scheme for the 'bulk- handling of wheat. The (iovernment intends pushing ahead in the matter of providing for tlhrce. general elevators and a special type of railway truck. ' • C'OLISSEUM. FIRE INSURANCE. Melbourne, January 13. The insurances on the Oolisscum fire amount to .€11,250, including .£3500 in the New Zealand Insurance Co. The Town Hall was insured for £10,(100. INTEH-,STATE COMMISSION. Melbourne, January 13. The Lnter-Stato Commission held its first public, meeting to-day. The chairman, in u lengtli/y statement, explained the procedure lvganling tariff investigations: and declared that the com mission would welcome evidence from all quarters, irrespective of any political tenet, provided it was useful from a practical and business viewpoint.

RACIXf! LICENSE REFUSED. Tirisliane, January IS. flie City Council lias declined to renew the fisense for the cricket ground until the trustees diwontinue ponv liiciiiy. . : . ' j MOTOIi ToritlXf! CONTEST, I Sydnoy, January- 13. riio' AuloiJioliiltt Ohiib of Austral\u ami the Victoria Automobile Club have annouifced the result of the touring contest lietween Melbourne ami Sydney. Turner (lienz) was first. Hill (Talbot)' second, wild Iloette (Bens) third.