GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14324, 29 September 1910, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

MOTOR RECORDS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. NEW YORK, Sept, 28. Barney Oldfield, a motorist at Milwaukee, covered 25 miles in 23min. 47sec. He travelled Gif miles in an hour's race. HINDOOS AT THE CAPE. (Received Sopt. 29, 9.10 a.m.) ; ’ CAPETOWN, Sopt. 28. Two Hindoos were fined £75 or nine months’ imprisonment for being in possession of false permits. ALASKAN GOLD. NEW YORK, Sept. 28. The latest placer gold discovery is in Alaska ion the Konai River. THE WHITEHAVEN MINE. LONDON, Sopt. 28. 'An exploration party entered . the Whitehaven mine and discovered the first group of bodies but an obstruction impeded their further progress. ALLEGED ESPIONAGE. LONDON, Sept. 28. Lieut. Helm has been committed for trial op a charge of espionage at Portsmouth. He was admitted to bail, of £2OOQ. THIEVES ARRESTED. ROME, Sept. 28. A man and woman, accused of jewel and hotel thefts to the amount of £20,000, chiefly in Franco, have been arrested in Milan. WINDFALL TO MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. (Received Sept. 29, 9.10 a,m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Robert Arthington died at Leeds in 1900 and his estate accumulated while, his will was disentangled so that it has only now been distributed. A sum of £466,000 was bequeathed to the Baptist Missionary Society and £373,000 to the London Missionary Society. Twenty first cousins divide £lll,OOO. MARRIAGE LICENSE REFUSED. (Received Sept. 29, 12.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Sept. 28. Kunio. Toda,, the son <of a, wealthy Japanese, is to marry Rayda Reed, a white girl, but the authorities both of; Yaooma and Seattle have refused to issue a marriage license, COUNTESS’S JEWELS RECOVERED (Received Sopt. 29, 12.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Sept. 28. The’ Countess of 'Antrim’s jewels, which were lost while she was travelling on the Canadian. Pacific Railway,, have been recovered, but no details, have'been given. - - AN UNDESIRABLE. .■.■■■■■ (Received Sopt.-29, 8.10 a.m,) LONDON, Sept. 28. Mr. Wallace, chairman of London Sessions, said Tie was surprised that one of the prisoners had been deported from South Africa to the Motherland inasmuch as the dominions have not received our undesirables.