GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10494, 4 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Sydney. Sun’s Special). BRITISH ARMY AEROPLANES. London, October 23. The British Army now possesses 36 effective aeroplanes, while four additional machines are under construction. EDISON’S GREAT INVENTION. London, October 23. The nickel-steel storage battery, on which Mr Edison has been at work lor ten years, is completed at last. . It is described as a perfect invention, and the general belief is that it is destined to revolutionise certain phases [of transportation. The battery, in the production of which the famous inventor spent not less than £600,000, is now being operated successfully on special trains running between New York and Long Beach. In the trials as far as they have gone everything has worked most smoothly. A DOUBLE CENTURY. •“ , London* October 23, Frank Wootton has registered his 100th win for the season, but nevertheless has not recovered his place at the head of the list of winning jockeys. . _ That position is retained by Danny Maher, who went to the front during Wootton’s suspension, and lias now 101 wins to his credit. Statistics show that favourites win once in six times in England. ARTIFICIAL MEAT. Loudon, October 23, ■An -interesting exhibit of synthetic meat is now being shown in the Strand. Meat produced by this process can bo either roasted or boiled, and is declared to possess twice as much nourishment as the ordinary article. Beef can be produced at just half what it usually costs.

NOT A STRANGER. London, October 33. It has been ascertained that the comet which Professor Schumasse, of the Nice Observatory, was reported, to have discovered, is identical with Tuttle’s periodic comet. BRITAIN’S FORMIDABLE FLEET. London, October 33. The battleship Marlborough, which was launched at Devonport to-day, makes the twentieth ship of the Dreadnought class of which the British navy is now in possession, PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. London, October 23, A special correspondent in the United States cables the following message to The Times: —‘‘Lboking 'at the country as a whole, the safest judgment to-dav is that the Democrats are strong enough to afford to lose votes, and that the Republicans may gain many votes, and yet be beaten, while the ‘bull moose party’ will poll a vote which, three months ago, would have been thought impossible. Though the average person does not believe that Colonel Roosevelt will win, nearly everyone is prepared to admit that, aided by the Socialists, as the fourth party, he may, by depriving the winner of a majority in the Electoral College, be able to throw the election on the house. ” HOLLAND’S QUEEN. London, October 33. , The Court physicians at The Hague report that a slight indisposition from which Queen Wilhelmina has been suffering for some days tends to dispel the hope which her Majesty has entertained for some time past. The doctors add that the condition of the Queen- is satisfactory. UNDERGROUND, DANGERS. London, October 23. The Kaiser, speaking before the Chemical Society, announced that in consequence of accidents in coal mines he would invite inventors to devise means -whereby use might be made of chemical agencies to warn underground workers of approaching danger.