GENERAL CABLE NEWS
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, October 20.
Gilboy’s annual report on tho vintage says that it promises largely to exceed that of 1011. It is of fair average quality, and tho prospects aro really fine for wines in many regions. Tho conveyance of foot and mouth disease to KiJdaro is officially attributed to straw packing in cases of French wines and groceries sent to the Curragh camp, and used afterwards as litter for pigs. Simmons, a fishmonger, has been arrested for the jewellery robbery in tho Edgwaro road, when three men entered a shop, secured a diamond ring after threatening tho attendant with revolvers, and then drove away in a motorcar. Simmons was brought before tho court and remanded. Tho official estimate is that there aro 16.907,000 acres sown in wheat in Argentina. PARIS, October 20.
Successful experiments have been made with a cartridge that, when exploded in an enclosed area, will asphyxiate anybody in a few seconds. It is intended for uso against bandits resisting capture. BERLIN, October 20.
Lieutenant Biessbarth and a passenger wore aoroplaning at Giengen, in Wurtemberg, when tho machine fell. Both men wero killed instantly. RANGOON, October 20.
Mr Arnold, editor of tho Burma “ Critic,” has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defamation of the district magistrate at Morgui, whom ho accused of wrongly acquitting a British officer changed with tho abduction ’of a native girl. NEW YORK, October 20.
Wood, the English distance champion, defeated Longboat, tho Indian runner, in a twelve-mile Marathon race at Winnipeg. Ho won by half a lap. SYDNEY, October 21.
Commander Evans, of the Scott Antarctic ship Terra Nova, has arrived here. Ho departs for New Zealand on the 27th inst. PERTH, October 21.
The Legislative Council, by 13 votes to 8, resolved to read six months hence the State Hotels Bill, under which the Budget anticipated revenue amounting to £53,000. (Received October 22, 1.5 a.m.) BRISBANE, October 21.
Harry J. Lawson put up a world’s endurance club-swinging record at Ipswich—ll2hr 15min.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8258, 22 October 1912, Page 7
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