GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

OBITUARY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Paris, January l!l. The death is reported of General Pacquart, a champion of Dreyfus. Jlk fell from his horse ami slrni-k his head on the frozen ground. CANAL BUUi:.MIC. Berlin, .lannary ID. A huge canal, to cost C4((,IMK)',(fU(I, is projected to brinj* the Rhine entirely .through (ierman territory, making JEmiU'ii the terminal port instead of Rotterdam. VICTORIAN TRADE. Melbourne, .lanuary 20. Victoria's imports for J!)]3 totalled £•24,441,000, a decrease of £(i40,11.1, and the exports 1:17,810,000, a decrease of £U!Uj()W) fompai'ed with 1012. TDK HARDY Til AG MY. Sydney, .lannary 20. The coroner returned a verdict, of homicide and suicide in the Hardy case of the father shooting his son and then himself while temporarily insane. A SHERIFF'S DILKM.MA. New York, .lannary ID. Edward lieardly, a farmer at Marysville, has delied arrest for three days on a charge of shooting the local postmaster, lie locked himself in his house, with his wife and nine children surrounding him as a living shield. A skerili's posse is camped round the house. The slicriU' confesses himself helpless" for if he storms the, house the children may he hit.and if he continues the seige the children will starve. TIHEVES AND A PYTHON. lierlin, January 10. ' Two Englishmen who were reported 1 to possess jewels worth' .£20,000 were ( staying at a Munich hotel. A gang iff ) Russian and Norwegian thieves took an adjoining room'and attempted to inj troducc a half-starved python into the ) Englishman's room, hoping to secure | the jewels during the panic that would \ ensue. The thieves and the python were captured. PEER AS OO- RES PON DENT. London, .lannary 19. The rumors that Enrl Fitzwillia'm is to be co-respondent hi a divorce ease fo.ind confirmation in hi» counsel's protest against journalistic statements. He requested that the ease should he expedited, hut the judge, refused. T. I'ornyn Piatt, of Bristol, is another co-respoiid-cnt. The plaintill' is Alexander Brodrik Leslie Melville, director of the Union ; of London ami .Smith's Dank. , BLACKMAIL CAS]' WITHDRAWN. j London, January 10. \ Day has williiirawu hi.-, prosecution of [Sievier. Sievier has withdrawn the im[pulations leading to the blackmail pruj sedition, ami both parties agreed to abstain from- mutual libellous attacks. The Judge concurred and Sievier was discharged. ABBE LEMAIRE RESIGNS. Paris, January 19. M; Lemaire has resigned the VieePresidcney of Hie Chamber of Deputies.