GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 270, 15 April 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN INVENTOR'S DEATH. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, April 12. Fermany Forest, inventor of the explosion motor engine, died in the Gazelle, the world's first motor-boat, from embolism of the heart, the result of shock after striking a rock. AN ILLEGAL SEIZURE. Berlin, April 13. The German fishing steamer, Burgermeiater Monckeberg, states that while lying off Iceland, twenty-five armed men in motor boats boarded the Burgermeister, knocked down, kicked and shut up the captain in the wheelhouse, and intimidated the crew. Subsequently a leading official fined the captain twelve hundred kronen, and ordered him to forfeit his nets. He states that the first men aboard were peasants, and the seizure was illegal. It is expected that Germany will protest to Denmark. BIG NAVAL PROGRAMME. Vienna, April 13. The Neu Freie Presse calculates that the Austria-Hungarian Admiralty willrequire seventeen millions sterling for the new shipbuilding programme, spread over six years. Next year's Budget will contain the first instalment. NOT ATTAINED ITS OBJECT. London, April 11. The Times, in a leader, regarding the Pacific cable, emphasises Australia's contention that the cable will not have attained the objects for which it was constructed' unless the all-red cable is laid across the Atlantic. THE STEFANSSON EXHIBITION. London, April 11. Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, ;in a letter dated the miuUle of February, predicts that his vessel, the Kariuk, is safe. He believes it is drifting across itlie Polar basin and will emerge between Greenland) and Spitsbergen.

A SERIOUS CHARGE. •London, April 13. T. Crossland, author, was charged at MaTylebone with conspiring with Lord Alfred Douglas in accusing Robert Beldwin Rloss, literary executor of Oscar Wilde, with committing an offence of disgraceful naiture. He was remanded. Douglas is 3till in France, A PROPOSED POLICE UNION. Melbourne, April 14. The Political Labor Council decided to take steps to organise the police force into an industrial union.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' CONFERENCE.

Melbourne, April 14. 'The Commercial Travellers' Conference announced that the New Zealand Association had' affiliated with Australia. Previously only the Otago Association was affiliated.

CHEAPER' TELEGRAMS. Paris, April 13. The wireless telegraph system is widely extending. The new telephone tiu'ifl allows two thousand calls n year for £l2, while the telegraph Tate is being reduced below a half-penny per word for long messages. 1 WIFELESS TELEPHONE. limes and Sydney 'Sun Services. New York, April 13. An invention called the audioplione amplifier was tested on a steamef' and enabled those on. board to dance the tango to strains of music supplied from the land by wireless. HOSPICE OF ST. BERNARD, Times and Sydney Sun Services. Rome, April 13. A solid wall of snow fifteen feet, high surrounds the hospice* of St. Bernard. The dogs are doing extra duty patrolling each Side of the pass day aiid night for lost travellers.