GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17193, 12 November 1912, Page 14

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

(Sydney Sun Cables.) MYSTERIOUS GOLFER. MAX WITH A BLACK MASK. LOXDOX, Friday, Xov. 1. An unknown golfer who has been ap« pearing on the principal links in New York is reported to have created an extraordinary sensation by beating the best players and eclipsing all previous driving records. The greatest curiosity prevails as to who the marvel is, for up to the present his identity lias been effectually concealed by a black mask that he has invariably worn when playing. It is announced that a match for £loo® has been arranged between the mysterious golfer and the American open champion. PRESENCE OF MIND. MOTHER SAVES HER CHILD. SAN FRANCISCO, November 2. A stirring story of a mother's presence of mind comes from Los Angeles. When on the point of being run down by a motor-car, a Mrs. Baizer saved her four-months-old baby from death bjr; throwing it to a friend. She was struck by a machine owned by Mr. R. A. Yates, of San Fernando, while crossing First-street, and seeing that escape for both her and her child was impossible she tossed the child to a woman who was standing a few feet away just as the automobile hit her. The poor woman is now in hospital, suffering from two broken ribs and a fractured arm, and it is possible that there are also internal injuries. Her recovery is doubtful.

Vilhelm and alfoxso. 'FRISCO WANTS THEM. NEW YORK. November 5. The promoters of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, which is to be held at San Francisco in 3Ola, are keen to have the Kaiser and King Alfonso race their yachts on that occasion. Sir Thomas Lipton intends to visit San Francisco in the course of the next week or two to confer with the authorities of the exposition as to the best ways and means of inducing the royal yachtsmen to send their craft over to compete. FIFTEEN CHILDREN. YOUNG MOTHER'S RECORD. SAN FRANCISCO. November 'l. Mrs. Stephen Nagetotto. a resident of Franklin. Philadelphia, has given birth to six children in little more than 13 months. The latest arrivals are three boys. In September, 1911. the woman also bore triplets —two girls and a boy—and in 12 years she has had 1 children.. BROKEN UP. AN EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERT. LONDON, November 2. John King, a Yarmouth man. has bad an extraordinary experience. In a vehicular accident be sustained compound fractures of the cheek, jaw, and frontal bones, shoulder blade and collarbone, and three ribs, as well as a miscellaneous assortment of minor injuries. The doctors gave him two hours to live, but he has entirely recovered. BRITISH SOCIALIST PARTY, MANIFESTO TO THE WORKERS. LONDON, November 1. The British Socialist party has issued to the working classes a manifesto condemning syndicalism. “All workers,” runs one passage of the declaration, “whether they like it or not. are consumers as well as producers, and citizens as well as wage-earners, and it would be impossible, even if it were desirable, for trade unionists to divorce themselves from their relations to other useful elements of society.”

DAXES UNEASY. IXSURIXG AGAIXST WAR. LOXDOX, Xovember t. The feature, of the insurance market io-day was the big demand from Denmark for insurance for all merchandise, dwellings, and schools against war risks. It is assumed that the Danes are uneasy respecting the foreign political situation. CITY OF THEATRES. XEW YORK'S PLAYHOUSES. LOXDOX, Xovember Y. Xew York is destined to become thw greatest theatre centre in the world. At the present time no fewer than eighteen new playhouses are in course of erection in that city. "A DANGEROUS SHAM." THE TERRITORIALS’ TRAINING. LOXDOX. Xovember 3. CommentT.g upon the criticisms elich* ted by Lord Roberts's recent speech at Manchester in support of universal militnrv training, the "Observer.” in n lend-i;u-tii-10. holds up as an example tha Balkan Slates' system of compulsory The ■■Observer'' says that it is tired of the softsoap lavished by those who shirk duty upon those who do it. The majority of the Territorials are pampered and cajoled under conditions that are as unlike those of real soldiering as it would be possible to find them. " The best service.” adds the paper, “that the earnest soldiers in the ranks of the Territorials could render their country would be to resign from what they hold to be a dangerous sham. Then we should be compelled to adopt universal service."

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