GENERAL CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 198, 21 August 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

ALL READY FOR WAR. j FSEfCHKEWS BUKMTWG DESIHE. PARIS, August IS. General Zurlinden. v. ho has twice been France's War Minister, declared yesterdnv in the course of an interview that e vervthing was ready for hostilities with ; Germ an v. "There will be no repetition of the uncertainty and disconcerting delays of u;0," i-aid General Zurlinden. "The Germans will find our army just as ready theirs. Our mobilisation, our concen tration, our transports, and railways are all remarkably well prepared. | "Our infantry, cavalry, and artillery have all been trained for a big war. They hare been put on the defensive, which a j pn e can ensure success, and they burn w jth the do«ire to shout again the old buttle cries." "A MERE ORNAMENT." DOMINION GOVERNORS. LONDON, August 14. Givin" evidence before the House of Common's Committee on the Pensions to Governors Bill, Mr. Arthur Lynch, MP.. ' eairl the governor of a colony earned his mouev. but that the governor of a dominion was a mere ornament, and a very doubtful ore at that. He was very little ; appreciated in the dominion he was sup- ] po-ed to govern. I Mr. Lynch said he hud conversed with j moVof'the most distinguished of the. oversea statesmen, whose opinion was j that they had reached a stage when the functions of a governor were absolutely . These statesmen further stated that coventors did no harm because they did not dare to lift a finger in any matter. SMOOTHING OUT THE WRINKLES. THAGBDT OF A BEAUTY PABXOITR. SAN FRANCISCO, August 15. Following the tragic death of Miss Mary Ilg. who committed suicide at Oak- i land's (Cal.) after her beauty had been utterly destroyed by a face specialist, the nostrums of "beauty doctors" have claimed another victim at that place. A Mrs. Jardinc has died fiom degeneration of the heart, induced ny shock on the application of a carbolic acid , lotion which was intended to smooth out wrinkles by removing the outer cuticle. The authorities started to investigate the methods of Madam Goldzier, in whose "beauty parlour" the affair occurred. The woman fled after telephoning for a doctor, but was arrested later on. FIENDISH CRIME A COLORADO EOBBOB. NEW YORK, August 16. A story of a fiendish crime comes from Golden, Colorado, and is contained in a confession made by an Italian woman, Mrs. Fergione. i Mrs. Fergione states that she and Mrs. ! Garramone, another Italian woman, who ' is now serving a term of imprisonment for forgery, lured a Mrs. Laguardia into ' the mountains by telling her they had there located her husband, who had been missing for three weeks. Their object. Mrs. Fergione said, was to rob her of £l5O, but Mrs. Laguardia, becoming suspicious, took flight. Relinquishing her baby, Mrs. Garramone ' soon overtook her and slashed her throat with a bread-knife, after which the two womnn kicked the corpse over a cliff into a ravine. I RUINED BY THE REVOLUTION.! i PARIS. August 16. j Two young ladies who were lately arrested for theft in a large city emporium are found to belong to a noble Portuguese family that was ruined by the revolution. " . They confessed that they were in such straitened circumstances that they had been obliged to resort to shoplifting as a j means of support. , "LEGALISED FREE LOVE.' ASTOB'S BETROTHAL. NEW YORK, August 13. Fashionable society in America has been stirred to its depths by the announcement of the engagement of Mr. John Jacob Astor to Miss Madeline Force. Not only society, but religious circles also are greatly agitated by the reported betrothal of this IS-year-old girl to the well-known millionaire, and the hostility with which the alliance is regarded is perhaps more pronounced than anything ever seen in this country. The fact that Mr. Astor was divorced from his first wife on the ground of unfaithfulness, and was prohibited from remarrying in New York State, has aroused a storm of protest among the churches from New York to San Francisco, and the whole business may yet cause a serious schism in the Episcopal Church. The engagement has been condemned in unmeasured terms by the Rev. Dr. Richmond, of Philadelphia, whose denunciation the bishops are inclined to regard as intemperate, yet fairly expressive of the churches' attitude. Mrs. Brown, president of the Federated Women's Clubs, declares that the New idea of changing wives every- few months is utterly subversive of morality and common decency, and that it is even move abominable than the unions of old m n and young girls. 1 in Kelly, of San l-'r:inei3co, says that Dr. Richmond's statements are a plain, ma:i!v outline of church law. "If the pirl is innocent and decent," added the Dean, "1 call the marriage abominable." The Rev M'Farlane, in the course of Borne strictures on the proposed nuptials, declared that the time had arrived for the Church to make known the canon on divorce and remarriage. "As Dr. Richmond says," remarked Mr. McFarlane, "plutocrats must learn that with all their millions they cannot buv the Episcopal Church."