GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 19 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Uy Cable—Press Association—Copyright BOAT CAPSIZES. Berlin, June 17. Six occupants of a boat at Elbestadt were exchanging scats when the boat capsized and all were drowned. LIQUOR IN CANADIAN CAMPS. Ottawa, June 17. The Minister of Defence insists that the men of Major Leonard's field battery who have - resigned must complete their full term of service. He is determined to exclude liquor from camps. [Major Leonard permitted liquor to be introduced into camp and was asked to resign by the Minister.] AGITATOR RELEASED. I :';/""•' »elhi, June 17. Tilak, tlie agitator, has returned to Peona from Mandalay, after undergoing six years' transportation for sedition. His arrival created great excitement. MISSIONARIES IN TROUBLE. London, June 17. The Baptist Missionary Society has received a cablegram from San Salvador (Angola) stating that Portuguese soldiers nave surrounded the mission, cuting off communications. A STEAMER WRECKED, Sydney, June IS. The steamer Novelty, 194 tons, built in Auckland in 1909, has been wrecked at Lake Macquarie heads. All hands | were saved. I j THE DISABLED CAIRNHILL. Sydney, June 18. The disabled steamer, Cairnhill, will be towed from Bismarck Archipelago | to Sydney, a distance of two thousand ; miles."

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. I *yd»ey, June 18. An extradition order has been issued against Horace Cramond, who is charged with stealing £350 from the Wellington office of Thos. Cook and Sons.

NORFOLK ISLAND. Sydney, June 18. The Federal Executive Council has approved the proclamation declaring that the Commonwealth will assume control of Norfolk Island on July 1.

! WIRELESS TIME SIGNALS. i■ ' \ London, June 17. I In the House of Commons, Mr Ackland, "in reply to a question, said that the British delegates at the International Conference in Paris had recommended the transmission of wireless time signals from observations at Capetown, Colombo and Hongkong. They desired the cooperation of Australia and New Zealand.

STEAMERS IX COLLISION. Lo»don, June 17. The Kaiser Wilhchn 11. and the steamer Incemore collided, during a fog, oil' Spithead. The Incemore's bows were stove in. The liner returned to Southampton. She was damaged amidships and was unable to continue her voyage. The Kaiser Wil'helm 11. is one of the big Norddeutscher-Lloyd boats, has a registered tonnage of 19,301 tons, is 684 feet long and has a speed of 23'/ 2 knots. She can carry 1800 passengers and a crew of -605.]

POLICEMAN'S PISTOL PRACTICE. New York, June 17.

Because a chauffeur, who was driving the German Ambassador, Count Bernilolf, through Champaign, Illinois, did not attend to a policeman's signal, the policeman fired a revolver at the automobile when the Ambassador was returning from the University. The Mayor apologised to Count Bcrnstoff and ordered the policeman to bo dismissed.

THE PACIFIC CABLE. London, June 17. The Pacific Cable Board is laying a second cable from Bamfield to Alberni, on Vancouver Island, also a submarine cable from Parkcsvillc to Mainamo. The board is inviting tenders for an underground cable from Parkcsvillc to Alberni, which section is most subjected to interruption.