MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14344, 17 January 1911, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Gray in the. 8000 up game ran. out when. Digglo was half way. The revenue of Spain for 1910 shows an, increase of about £4,100,000. The German Crown Prince at Abbottaba witnessed a. display of hill warfaro, and later entrained for Delhi. Italy has finally decided "to add two Dreadnoughts to tho four previously arranged for. Tho death is announced of Lord Swaythling, head of the banking firm of Samuel Montague and Co., London.

Four arrests have been made at Ogden, it is believed of men who held up the Southern Pacific express -<u January Ist. Sigrist, a dischargee! naval cook, slashed with a knife Rembrant's "Night Watch" in the State Museum at Amsterdam. He was arrested.

Mr Travers, general menager of tho Farmers' Hank at Toronto has pleaded guilty to three charges of theft and false returns involving £BOOO. , During a stormy debate in the West Australian Assembly on tlio .Redistribution, of Seats Bill, six members were suspended on different occasions for disobeying tho Chair.

Out of a total of 1646 cholera cases at Maderia, 535 were fatal. The malady has subsided. Professor Heinmann has discovered in the Ducal Palace at Ludwig the last lino -Gainsborough, portrait of Queen. Charlotte. The United States Senate debated a hill providing for the election of- Senators on the people's direct vote instead of by the State Legislatures. No decision was arrived at.

Mr Harold Belcher, theatrical manager and agent, has been awarded £2OO damages against "Lloyd's News" for libol by using his name for a character in a serial story entitled " Motley and Tinsel."

There is much elation throughout South "Africa at the cricketers winning the third test match. I*. is assumed that, on English wickets, which are favourable to the South African style of bowling, the South Africans would have a fair chance of even winning the triangular rubber. Jack Clarke and Ernest Pye (Australians) won the sis days' bicycle race at Buffalo, New York. They covered 1251 miles, 81 miles over last year's record on the same track. Tho officials declare that the winners' performance is unequalled under similar conditions.