GENERAL CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 192, 14 August 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

PORTUGUESE PLOTTING. ROYALISTS' CALL TO ARMS. LISBON, August 8. It is reported that King Manuel and the Pretender, Don Miguel, have joined hands, and have issued a call to arms to the Royalties to re-establish the monarchy. An emissary has been sent to England to purchase a cruiser for the Monarchists. At the present time 3;>.000 troops are protecting the northern frontier, and the Government is now dispatching a large force to guard the southern frontier. The authorities state that they eould mobilise 100.0(10 men if necessary. Food supplies, including olive oil, one of the principal necessities of the poorer classes, have risen unaccountably since the revolution. Yesterday 4000 people marched in procession to the Parliament Buildings, where the National Assembly was in session, and protested against the high prices they were compelled to pay for the necessaries of life. Troops dispersed the crowd.

KING LEOPOLD'S VALET. PUBLISHING HIS MEMOIRS. BRUSSELS, August 7. Pome interesting revelations are promised by Henri Baitalle, the late King Leopold's confidential valet, who will Bbortly publish his Memoirs. Baitalle makes no secret of the fact that he will reveal the King's confidences in his more intimate affairs. The public interest has been whetted, and Belgians are eagerly awaiting the spicy details which they are looking to Baitalle to give them. TRIED FOR 100-MILE SPEED. FROLIC OF MILLIONAIRES' SONS. NEW YORK, August 3. Vincent Astor, son of Mr. John Jacob S&fltor, the millionaire, and Hermann Oelrichs, the 17-year-old heir to the Oelricbs' millions, figured in a sensational motoring mishap yesterday at Newport, the fashionable watering-place on Rhode Island. They were racing their cars at a furious pace along the sands, striving to attain a speed of 100 miles an hour, when young Oelrichs' auto suddenly burst into flames. The boy leaped from the car and escaped unhurt, but young Astor's car skidded and went dashing into the sea. The crowd on the beach helped to smother the burning car in Eand, and a team of horses had to be secured before the other car could be hauled out of the sea. SELLING A HUSBAND, AUSTRIAN ARMY OFFICER'S WIFE. VIENNA, August 6. A remarkable case has just been disposed of in one of the Vienna courts. The central figure in the proceedings was Fraulein Amelio Mostler. a goodlooking young woman, who was charged with having disturbed the connubial bliss of Captain von Strumpf, an Austrian army officer. The latter, although declared to be the aggrieved party, was not the one at whose instance the prosecution was undertaken, the captain's wife being the complainant. The fair accused freely admitted that she had been a disturbing factor in the Strumpf household: but, however her conduct might have been viewed morally, from a legal standpoint it was blamelese. Fraulein Mostler's story shortly was that the captain's wife had agreed to forfeit all claim to her husband on the understanding that the defendant secured an allowance for her. The presiding judge promptly acquitted -the accused, holding that by tbe contract into which Frau von Strumpf entered she bad renounced all claim to her husband's fidelity.