GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143673, 18 December 1911, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

RUSSIA ANI> THE JESUITS. By Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Dec. 18. 8.5 a.m.) ST, PETERSBURG, Dec. 17. The Government refused the British embassy’s application to waive the law against the admission of Jesuits, to enable Father Pigott. an Australian scientist, to undertake soismological studies at Pulkova observatory. CONTROL OF TORPEDOES. (Received Dec. 18, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 17. Mr. John Hayes Hammond, juu., has completed his method of guiding torpedoes by wireless. The method is believed to be also applicable to aeroplanes. A HOTEL BURNED. (Received Dec. 18, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 17. At Santa Barbara, California, an annex to the Hotel Potter was burnt and five- persons injured. There was a panic among the girls working in the laundry ; many were rescued exhausted by the smoke. MURDER JUSTIFIED. (Received Dec. IS, 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK. Doc. 17. Lilian Graham and Ethel Conrad have been acquitted on a charge of shooting the millionaire sportsman and hotelowner, IV. Stokes. AN EARTHQUAKE RECORD. (Received Doc. 18. 8.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 17. The seismograph recorded a violent earthquake four thousand miles away, in a direction which could not he ascertained. CRETAN DEPUTIES LANDED. CANEA, Dec. 17. A French cruiser stopped a Greek steamer carrying Cretan deputies to the Greek Parliament, and compelled them to land. THE PLUMBING TRUST. NEW YORK. Dec. 16. A tentative agreement for the dissolution of the Plumbing Trust lias been reached between the Department of Justice and the Pacific Coast Plumbers’ Association, THE BATTLE SHIP MAINE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Portions of the tv reck of the battle ship Maine will bo distributee! to tho museums and patriotic societies. A portion will probably be given to the Republic of Cuba for incorporation in a public monument at Havana. MURDER AND SUICIDE. LONDON, Dec. 16. Jonas Marshall committed suicide by taking carbolic acid after fatally shooting Jane and Isabel Stevenson, sisters, at Stockton-on-Tces, while they were returning from a dance. AN IMPRISONED CARTOONIST. (Received Dec. 18, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. Nineteen members of the Royal Academy have sent a letter to the King of Spain requesting clemency for Sagusta, the cartoonist, who is undergoing a sentence of nine years’ imprisonment. The cartoon was entitled “Homage to Ferrer.” SPANISH RIOTERS SENTENCED. (Received Dee. IS, 8.45 a.m.) MADRID, Dec. 17. A court-martial at Succa, Valencia, tried twenty-two rioters for killing a magistrate and two court officials, and six were sentenced to death. CANNOCK CHASE MINE. (Received Dec. 18, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 17, Ono body has been recovered from the Cannock Chase mine. It is believed the other men aro dead also.