GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

RIOTING! IN ROME. j By Cable—Press Association-—Copyright j Rome, March 11. The general strike was ended by concessions to the populace regarding the hospitals, lmt not before serious rioting had taken place. Twenty civilians and many carliiiiicres were seriously injured in the suppression of the rioting. A. MURDERER SENTENCED. Sydney, March 12. Richards has been sentenced to death for the murder of bis wife at Wcewa. The jury recommended him to mercy on account of his wife's extravagance. TWO MEN DROWNED. Sydney, March 12. Edward Smith, aged 111, and James Smith, aged 07, his uncle, were drowned in - a water-hole at Auburn. The farmer was bathing and got out of his depth. His uncle tried to rescue him, but was pulled under. TIIE TAMMANY ROSS. New York, March 11. The National Democratic Club, alleging that boss Murphy was behind in his club subscription, dismissed him and a dozen other prominent Murphyitcs. The action was taken as the outcome oE the Sulzer case, and will probably lead to Murphy's loss of political power. ■ A STRIKE AFTERMATH. Capetown, March 11. The Rand municipalities are organising relief for the distress. An aftermath of the strike is that 2000 miners are unemployed and 2000 have emigrated. TRAINING-SHIP BURNING. London, March 11. The Wellesley, ft training ship at North Shields, is ablaze. All the 200 boys on board have been rescued. POSTED AS LOST. London, March 11. The Inveravon, from Oallao to Portland, is posted as missing. ESPIONAGE. Vienna, March 11. Jacob an Austrian lieutenant, has been sentenced to seventeen year.,' rigorous imprisonment for espionage during the mobilisation at the height of the Balkan war. THE STARCHFIELD MURDER. London, March 11. ■tarclifield, accused of the murder of his son in a railway carriage, &ad Mr. and Mrs. Gould, charped with espionage, hare been committed for trial. ENGLISH BETTING BILL. London, March 11. Lord Newton's Betting Inducements Bill has been read a second time in the House of Lords.