At Cotebrook, near Northwich, a water main on tho Liverpool pipe-lino' has burst. A fissure, ,V.'t. in length, was enufed in th* pipe, which is :ift. in diameter and 1-Jin. thick, through which hundreds of thousands of gallons rushed, • tearing up a field for thirty yards, and 'forming two chasms. The Is'orthwieli Council waterworks was Hooded.
The King of Spain has renounced his function'as arbitrator in a boundary dispute between l'cru .and Ecuador, because it lias come to his knowledge that tho resnoctivo Governments do not wish tu decide tho (juestion by arbitration. A leaking of evidenco in the dispute is the cause of tho ndverso feeling. King AH'oufo consented (o net as arbitrator six years ago. Tho question at issue concerns tho possession of over 100,Oou acres of land lying/about the head waters of tho Amazon.
As the.result of a.great storm in ;the Caspian Sea the lauding-stage at. Astrakhan was swept away and 300 Persian dock labourers were drowned.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 7
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160Untitled Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 7
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