GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 33, 29 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright New York, June *5. An automobile, containing three men and two women, dashed over the Flatfoot Bluff, White Point, a few miles north of San Pedro. The bodies of all the victims were found oil the ocean beach. Tie owner purchased the machine on the previous day, and had taken aome friends for a ride. A FATAL HUNGER STRIKE. New York, June 28. As the result of 1 , a fifteen-day hunger strike at Holly Springs, Massachusetts, a prisoner, under a ten years' sentence in the penitentiary, died in a cell in the county gaol.' The prisoner had been convicted of cruelly ill-treating his young son. THE ATTACK ON KALGAN. Peking, June 26. Four hundred local troops prevented the mutineers crossing from the old city into, eastern Kalgan. The Europeans are' safe. ' A hundred Chinese were slain. ACCIDENT ON BATTLESHIP. London, June 20. ■ Three sailors were killed and three injured on the battleship Monarch, at New Quay. While hoisting a launch a shackle broke. SALE OF PICTURES. London, June 26. Eighty-seven pictures, the property, of Lord Grenfell, realised £IOO,OOO. .Titian's 'Lorenzo Urbiano realised .£13,000. . EARTHQUAKE IN SUMATRA. Batavia, June 20. An earthquake in Sumatra destroyed the Government offices. Many people were killed. A DOCTOR STABBED. i Paris, June 26. While a doctor was examining a patient in a village near Toulon the man stabbed him with a dagger, rushed outside and wounded three others who attempted to arrest him. Eventually a gendarme shot the patient. BIG GRAIN STORES BURNED. London, June 26. A fire in the grain warehouses and wool stores at Grimsby docks destroyed ihalf an acre of buildings, causing damage to the extent of £200,000. THE "ALL-RED" CABLE. London, June 26. Mr, Goddard, representative of the; Western Union Telegraph Company, informed the Dominions' Commission that his company was willing to lease one of •their lines for the "All-Red" route on | terms mutually satisfactory.

•LARGE ESTATE SOLD. London, June 26. Earl Mansfield!* Hampstead estate has been sold for £"SO,CCO. ELECTROCUTED.

New York, June 26. A man died in Seattle hospital about nine ihours after he came into contact with a live wire carrying sixty thousand volts at a .'ub-sitation K>f the Puget South Traction Company, He met with an ;iccid(!iit a'ld regained consciousness and. tJhen 'walked into a room containing a transformer, contrary to the rules, passing throjgli a narrow place, and his aide brushed 'heaviSy against the charged wires.

MAD KING'S FRIEIAK. Now Yoric, June 28. What is believed to be the most valuable suit of male attire ever nuulc was brought to New York by Anita Keoch from Stuttgart, Germany. It is valued at twenty thousand dollars, and was made for the ■ late mad King Otto of iiwaria, The coat, waistcoat, and trousers are embroidered with gold and silver, and on tlhe coat there are daid to be a thousand pearls. NEW SOUTH WALES INDUSTRIES.

Sydney, June 27. "Eho official report shows thtit at the end of 1913 New South Wales Possessed 5343 manufacturing wortks, an increase of 181,, employing 83,105 males and 27,481 femail es, an increas ■of 5025. The wages paid wero £12,670,993; an increase of £1,084,911. TJie value of plant and machinery was £14,831,637, an increase of over a million. PAPJJAMENTAiUAN'S CLAIM. Sydney, June 27. , Recently Mr 0.-lxmie, M.L.A., and Mr G. A. Jonc-H, ex-member, sued the agent fo r the sale of the Boorabil estate to the Government for closer settlement purposes for £2OO commission. The verdict wa& in plaintiffs' favor. As the result of pi'cn-i criticisms upon legislators acting' as agents tne Cuoinet, after a protracted sitting, decided to appoint a 'Royal Commission of enquiiy. f DEVELOPMENT OF HULL. London, June 26. lllie King opened a new dock at Hull, constructed at ji cost of £3,000,000. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, and ■many other New Zeailandens and Australians wore present.

SYDNEY FERIIY CHARGES. Sydney, June 27. There is an outcry against the ferry companies owing to their considerablyraising fares, following the recent advance in railway train rates 1 .

GOLDSBROUGH MORT AND CO. Melbourne, June 27. Goldsbrougfh Mort and Co.'s profit for the past 1 year arc £154,163, to which is addixl £7o,(m- ibrought forward, compared with f 140,925, the previous year's profits.

A MISSING VESSEL. , Sydney, Jime 27. There is no further news of tfie missing vessel Alfred Penning, and the worst ie feared.