GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7450, 26 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. AIRSHIPS TO KEEP OFF. LONDON. Stay 24. By common consent _ the Homc-Sccro-tury. Air Churchill, is introducing a Bill to prevent aoroplaniug over Loudon during Coronation week. LADY INJURED IN ROTTEN ROW. LONDON, May 24. The Into Sir Joseph Diivcen’s daughter Florence was thrown from her horse in Rotten Row anil fractured her skull. Her condition is serious. Tho King was,riding past at tho time, ami made inquiries as to tho young lady's injuries. "AIEPHISTOPHELES" COMING. LONDON, May 24. Edmund Burke, the bass singer, who is appealing as Alephistophcles in’Taiist with Madame Melba at Covent Garden, null accompany- the prima donna on her Australian tour. HOLIDAY FATALITIES. ' (Received May 36, 1 a.m.) OTTAWA. May.2s._ There were several boating fatalities in connection, with the Empire Day celebration. Four pei'sons were drowned -at Winnipeg. TREATMENT OP TUBERCULOSIS. PARIS, Alay 24. - Drs Eernheim and Dieupart. in a paper read before tho Societo Internationale Tuboreuloso, strongly supported Szendefiy's anti-tuberculous injection of radio-' active menthol-iodine, a treatment without pain. Alany cures, it is eaid, have been recorded, ’and the treatment has also bccu successful in cases of lupus. CONGO LAND GRANTS. BRUSSELS, May 24. The British Govcfnmemt has made a friendly wrotost against the refusal of tho Congo authorities to grant land to British missionaries. LOCK-OUT OP TAILORS. VIENNA, Alay 24. Six thousand tailors are looked out owing to an unjustifiable strike of. tho employees of ono firm. FIGHT WITH GUN-RUNNERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Alay 24. The Ottoman gunboat Rifahiya had. a sharp fight with gun-runners in the Red Sea. Sho afterwards sank two dhows and then bombarded Khoko, a base of the illicit trade in arms and contraband. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. SYDNEY, Alay 25. . Ths, New South Wales G-ovomme-nt is converting the Architects’-Branch of the Works Department into a Building Department. The new department will control the construction, of all Government buildings. LARCENY OP CONTRABAND. SYDNEY, Alay 25. . Tho Full Court, in deciding an appeal, held that opium, although prohibited property, could bo made the subject of - a charge of larceny. VICTORIA’S REDUCED VINTAGE. MELBOURNE, Alay 25. Owing to tho ravages of phylloxera, the production of wrno in'Victoria has fallen from 2,822,263 gallons in 1907 to 991,941 last year. SHOWERS OF GOSSAMER. AIELBOURNB, May 25. There -has been ’an extraordinary phenomenon at Tallangatta, 215 miles from Melbourne. The atmosphere was full of millions of beautiful gossamer threads, which were so numerous as to cause inconvenience. Tho threads are attributed to balloon spiders. WOOD LUPINE SUSPECT. , PERTH, May 25.' Tho man Smithson, who was arrested in connection with tho murder of a young girl at Wood Lupine on May 13tb, ami was captured in the bush on Tuesday, Ims arrived hero in custody. There- wore largo crowds at the railway station, and tho accused man was subjected to a. hostile demonstration. A QUARANTINED STEAMER. SYDNEY, Alay 25. The owners of tho steamer Prinz Waldomar have been informed that they can remove tho vessel from quarantine, but without the officers and crow. The captain of the steamer refused to allow hor to bo moved unless he was in charge. v SUNDAY CONCERTS. , (Received Mav 25. 9.15 p.m.) ' - "SYDNEY, May 25. The Acting Chief Secretary has issued regulations directing that in future Sunday concerts must be of a strictly religious nature, and no collection must lea made till tho end of tho performance.