GENERAL CABLES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4396, 27 November 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Received this day at 9.55 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. Questioned in the Legislative Assembly ns to whether the Government intended to borrow £1,500,000 to complete tin: £3,000,000 loan, whereof only half was recently secured, Mr Cann, Minister of Finance replied in the affirmative. London, Last Night. Mehegan defeated Ward in a 20rouud contest. The decision was badly received, and Mr Hulls, the referee, was badly mobbed. St. Petersburg, Lust Night. M. Mistehuk, formerly head of the Kicff Detective Staff, refused to accept the theory that tho murder of Yuchchinsky was a ritual one. Mistchuk was dismissed from office, and was prosecuted oil a charge of fabricating evidence with the object of proving that the murder was not a ritual one. Mistehuk and his three assistants were acquitted. The sentence of death passed on five Russian bluejackets for inciting the sailors on board warships in tho Black Sea hi mutiny has boon commuted to iienul servitude for life. New York, Last Night. Other witnesses did not corroborate McManigal’s statement regarding tho blowing op of the Panama Canal. Brisbane, Last Night. In tin' inter-Stmto cricket match, New South Wales defeated Queensland by eight wickets. (Received this day at 12.20 p.m.) St. Petersburg, This Day. Eleven mutineers have boon shot at Sevastopol, and 400 sailors have boon transferred to Reval and Vladivostoek. There aro strikes in various districts as a protest.