GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The net personalty of Mr Kdward Terry, the well-known octor-manegpr, has been sworn at f 10,000.

The loss to the British hay crop, owing to the continuous rains, is estimated by the "Daily Mail" at £5,000,000.

At St. Petersburg yesterday a Mussulman murdered a Mussulman deputy of the Duma named SyrtJanov, The King of Norv.ay has banqueted Captain Amundsen and his companions in honour of their successful search for the South Pole.

The birth-rate in England and Wales during 1911 was 24.4 per 1,000, which ie 2.8 below the average for the decade. The death-rate was 14.6 per 1,000.

The American Lawn Tennis Association has officially informed the British Association that the United States will not be represented in the Davis Cup trials.

Three bats bearing the English, Australian, and South African players' autoare being sold to maintain a cot for a year in Sir J. Treloar's Cripple Home in Alton.

Thirty rubber tappers have ibeen sentenced at Singapore to ten years' hard labour for the murder of Mr. Maekay, assistant manager of one of the largest rubber plantations in. the Malay Peninsula.

It is semi-officially stated that the Spanish Government is considering an offer from Brazil to receive the Portuguese Royalists, who are now in Spain. The newspapers state that 200 of Captain Oonciero's followers will! depart for Brazil next month.