MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 21 October 1914, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

ITALIAN FLEET MOBILISED

PORTUGAL'S INTENTIONS

AMERICAN FINED IN LONDON

BRITISH GENERAL KILLED

T , T+ .. ■ ROME, Oct. 20. The Itahan fleet is entirely mobilised, under the Duke of Abruzzi. HAMBURG, Oct. 20 Jremdenblatt states that Portugal's sieged intention to participate in the war shows that Britain will use . the Portuguese against the Germans, retaining her forces for island defence NEW YORK, Oct 19 The Standard Oil Company has protested to, the Government against the seizure or the Brindilla. LONDON, Oct. 20. An^ American citizen was fined at Bow Street for carrying 27 business letters to and from Berlin and London on . behalf of merchants. The penalty was £3 for each letter. The Belgian Minister is sending a shipload of food; and clothing to th Q refugees in Holland. Major-General Hubert Hamilton was standing with a group of fellow-officers under cover, when a shell burst a hundred yards away. A bullet struck General Hamilton on the temple and killed him. No one else was touched. The shellfire throughout the day prevented the removal of the body, but at dusk it was carried to a little church ■and buried. [Major-General Hubert lon Wetherall Hamilton, C.8., D.5.0., was a veteran of the Burmese, Egyptian, and South African campaigns. He was mi.*tary secretary to Lord Kitchener in South Africa and India.]