MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 31 July 1911, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

PARIS, July 29. Naoum Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, dropped dead while sitting at cards in the Union Club.

The reorganisation of the War Office has resulted in General Joff re being created Gereralissimo.

OTTAWA, July 30. It is reported that a steamer, be> lieved to be the Canadian warship Niobe, is ashore on tTie Nova Scotian coast, with the engine-room flooded. Steamers have been despatched from Halifax and Sfc. John to render aid.

LONDON, July 30. In the Bethnal Green by-election Mr Masterman (Liberal) scored 2749 votes, while Mr Hoffgaard (Unionist) received Of;Bl. Mr Scurr, a. Socialist, received 134. '