GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 211, 5 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Of 76 airmen killed since September 16, 1908. 29 nave been French, including 11 officers.

Five men were injured by an explosion of liquid fuel aboard a torpedo-boat destroyer at Kiel on Sunday. General Sir R. 8. S. Baden-Powell inspected 1000 boy scouts from all parts of Sweden at Stockholm yesterday. DuTing an accident at firing practice on the Dutch battleship Hertog Hendrik Batavia three men -were injured. At the Hague the Inetrnational Statistical Conference has opened. Captan Collins represents the Commonwealth. The Victorian Royal Agricultural Show opened yesterday. The entries in all sections are large, and the quality excellent. Major Taylor, the negro cyclist, fell in a half-mile bicycle race in Ipswich, England, and sustained concussion of the brain. Samuel Ballance, a young policeman, who was brutally kicked during the Liverpool riotß, died in the hospital yesterday. On Sunday Mrs. Besant laid the founda-tion-stone of the theosophieal headquarters in Tavistock Square, London, costing £40,000. Mrs. Cameron, wife of Lieutenant Cameron, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for attempting to deiraud an insurance company by alleging that a diamond necklace had been stolen and then attempting to to obtain the amount of the insurance, has been released owing to ill-health.