GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 178, 27 January 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

POLITICAL REQUESTS. liy Cable—Press Association- -Copyrig.it London, January 23. The Edinburgh Court of Session has declared Miss Kippcrn's will valid. She 'bequeathed naif of her estate of £IO,OOO to Mr. Redmond and half to Mr. Keir Hardie, for the Labor party. The eourt refused to decide whether tiv< money was given to Hie. Nationalists. The judge said it seemed to be given to Mr. Redmond personally. THE SUNKEN SUBMARINE. London, January 2j. t The battleship Exuiouth is preparing to tow the submarine A 7 oil' the mud j with steel hawsers. !

"NO PLACK LIKE UOMK." Paris, January 23. Owing to the extreme cold, prisoners are refusing lo leave the shelter of prisons after the expiry of their sentences. IIIGH-PLAYINO ARISTOCRATS. Paris, January 25. As the outcome of a gambling incident at the Jockey (Mill), sis aristocratic members have been summoned b'fore a magistrate. •SHIPPING KSTICKHUSK. lVrlin, .lamiary 25. Tim passenger accommodation on the North German Lloyd steamer Wilhelra .dw Cirosse. is to be converted entirely into third class and steerage.

FAMILY POISONKl) V.Y CAS. Berlin, Januaary 2-' i. A master slater, a widower, at Hro.sInii, turned on the. gas at night and killed two sons, a daughter, his sister and niece.

"MARRIK.D >N UAS'L'K." Berlin. January 25. Prince Philip llohcnlohe Sehillingfursl, the Kaiser's kinsman, secretly married ilenriette Gcndra, an actress, a Viennese tradesman's daughter, tie intends to ask the Bavarian Government to ennoble his bride. AN ACTOR'S KXIT. New York, January 25. Mr. Forbes-Robertson bade farewell to the stage at the Manhattan Opiri House, amid a, storm of enthusiasm ai-d innumerable floral and other tributes.

TITH PRI.MUOSIC LKACUK. London, .liuinary 2"). The TrimroHi' l.casnc's Hstev vi-fugoe scheme has evoked « »narantcc of f.l> - 000 in the event, of civil war to provide hospitality to 10,01)1) women ami '■hiMrun. A DICKENS UU.VUNISUKNOB. Melbourne, .Ivinmu'iiy 2G. Mr. J. S. Woolr.oU, of lirigliton, on" of tin- oldest residents of. Australia, told an interviewer that he acted as copy boy for Charles Dickons and carried lii-i manuscripts to Chapman ami UnAl'* wrapped in brown ]iapcr hmgety tied. On one occasion he undid the Ktr-inff and read the maiinscript. It was 'he scono between Sam AVellor and liif lather, where Sam read his valciithie.Mr. Woolcutt came to Australia in 18SI.

FillVi AT A COI.i.U'.KY. Sydney. January 'it!. A (ire at Rast Clrel.ii colliery destroyed the poppet heads and screens and dam- ;,„(.(! the tunnel. The in eslima'ed at £'2ooo. Ovt-v a hundred men a; . rendered idle.

A BOATING FATALITY. Sydney, January 21!.. A boat capsized at Rotany Heads. The body of a man, named Gibb, was recovered, but two others, Soutar and Freeman, are missing. THE PANAMA KNIIIUITION. Sydney, January 26. Mr. llolman announced that New South Wales would bo represented at the Panama Exhibition. TRAVELLING SCHOOL HOSPITALS. Sydney, January 2(i. Tho Education Department is establishing a travelling school hospital in connection with the medical branch of the department, to meet the cases ot parents whose financial position prevents them remedying the defect of pupils discovered by medical inspectors. I - MINERS' .STRIKE. Sydney, January 20. The miners' strike at iieaufnrt, against the mine-owners' refusal to employ unionists, was only declared off after it had' lasted nineteen weeks.