GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

FaOK THE AUSTRALIAN | \ AMERICA'S DAVIS ow nu, I I rii . * ■ : 4/itVAS OTO,M»iSSI 1 IHE American team which »n • ™ * 1 ;"1 the challenge tie f or ?°®M» I to be played at Christchurd, w" M - I gers by tho Zealandia. Tim' ",?® P4ttße tt l I the team are William A L ?° mbers . <* I tain), Reals C. Wright and Ar 6 '^-4 I McLoughlin 8 ' and Eurico £k [ BRITAIN'S - POSTAL STATT^ . Some interesting statistics a&reSA I in } 10 annual report of the I master-General. Tho l«t<f bnt «h p., I ing the twelv.-,^^W© I report deals numbered 3,000 O OoIS ttlfl 1 the packets, postcards, etc/TSffl&fjwS I S 1 ° further shows that r 24,000 post-offices in the UnitS"^! dom, in which 212,000 pc„o n 6d ■ ployed. The revenue fo/tIS " ," 6 1 ' a. net increase of £500 Oflo revca h f amount for the previous ! noted hymnist bead. ' I Dr. Henry Cook. a noted Pr„*i'. i • I writer™, hjmnist, died i„ I COLOURED GIANT AFTER JOHNSON 1 A coloured giant, George" Bell •' 1 7ft 7in high, and has 8 a l 1 S « reach, is the latest man to seekS'l . I against Jack Johnson. Bell was foffil ■' I Georgia picking cotton. and Z'Sl 1 to Chicago last week by a well 8 1 promoter, who says his LcOTe,^ ' A FAMILY OP SHOPLIFTERS '< I The police in Toulouse, France, 'mad. '- II i three remarkable arrests last week • 1 they apprehended a woman of the i,™? 1 | of llouzzard, aged 55, her daughter S) 1 1 and her granddaughter 11, all of :*b£'V 1 j were caught red-handed stealing good?v& " I a shop. " When searched by UtheSli ■' • I the clients were found to have K I | worth of jewellery in their possession "7v I NOTED SARTORIAL CRITIC DEAD ' ! , Mr. John Williamson, the noted sJ'>- 1 tonal critic, and founder of the ' TaiL B and ...Cutter,' a London weekly trade iour. ' ; Edinburgh. « | TRAIN WRECKING IN INDIA. A despatch from Calcutta states that an attempt was made to ■ wreck the Dar jeeling mail train. The track was' lorri up for some distance, and it was oulv through the derailment of a goods train tVthat happened to come along first that' the mail train, which was crowded with Europeans, was saved from disaster' ii;> ' . A CLERGYMAN INDICTED. , The Rev. V. Richeson was indicted by the Grand Jury m Boston last week on a charge of having murdered' Avis Linnel. • - ; _ ? ' '■ ' • " ' ,V' ' '''V AMERICAN INVENTOR KILLED. 1 Professor Montgomery, well-known as a scientist and an inventor of flying machines, has been killed at Eden > Yale, California, whilst experimenting with a new type of gliding aeroplane. SSsaj&^lt j ■ ' " TAFT'S ANGRY SPEECH. President -Taft delivered an angry speech at a banquet in Pittsburgh fart week, at which the heads of the Steel Trust were present. , The President's indignation was raised by Congressman' * Littleton's criticism of . the Sherman antitrust law, under which the suit for the dissolution of the Steel Corporation has been initiated. Shaking his fist at the 1 gathering, Mr. Taft declared that, thin i law had been on the 'statute books • for ®' years, and could not be -- interpreted in, 1 * any other way than it had been con-v. f strued. "But the trusts," declared the President, "have been trying to' misconstrue it." Honest business would ffiotmS suffer by the prosecutions, which ipjlfp been undertaken with the sole object of |fel protecting the individual. t :. •' ' '■ - ■.■ • " DEATH OF KYRLE BELLEW. f Kyrle Bellew, the well-known : romantic actor, died last week in Salt Lake City, "' Utah, after a short illness. PLOT AGAINST THE KAISER. Ever since the assassination of the Rus- ! sian Premier extraordinary precautious! r ; have been taken to ensure the safety of the .Kaiser. He is most carefully,.guarded§fflj by police officers when out driving.-and-;,.'-the Reichstag has voted further funds, with a view to increasing the efficiency^! of'the secret service. It is asserted that an anarchist plot against the Kaiser .wai;'".'' discovered a week ago, but that th?'n«WJ/ was suppressed. • . ' PORTUGUESE ROYALISTS. |p|J 111-clad and starving, the remnants at the Portuguese Royalist bands whose ;;.' raids resulted so disastrously, have turned - brigands, and are now preying on'( the country. Captain 'Conceira, the party's luckless, leader, is a fugitive in Spain. ,; . v ; : ji|| AUSTRIAN EMPEROR'S HEALTH. The Emperor Francis Joseph hits re*'; > i covered from ail attack of bronchitis- from ; f which he has lately been suffering. /1 |