GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 2 April 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Pretoria, March 30. A curious explosion of dynamite oe urred yesterday at tin i'rkniv. tein Consolidated Mine iLe Rand. The men in the mine were being mustered when two cases of dynamite exploded, with terrific force. dour whites mid fifty natives w ro silled, and wfirm. and si :txn natives injured. t Is surmised th.-t the explosion was caused through the natives tampering with the dynamite. Melbourne, March 29. While a farmer named Harrison, of South Mirloo, was driving with his sister-in-law, Miss Stone, a burning tree fell across the buggy, killing both. London, March 29. The Princess of Wales has promised to send a screen, worked by herself, to the Women’s Exhibition at Melbourne. New York, March 29. Mrs Gelibennen, a New York banker’s widow, forfeits two millions sterling under her husband’s will in order to marry again. Sydney, March 29, A man has died at Waterloo from plague. Berlin, March 29.

Outrages against the English blacklegs at the Plaraburg clocks (who were imported to take the place of striking dockers') are increasing. One was nearly stoned to death. Others have abandoned work, alleging that they are insufficeutly protected. Lisbon, March 29.

The Queen Dowager of Portugal and her younger son, Prince Alfonso, brother to King Carlos, while motoring to a theatre in Lisbon, knocked down a woman and a child- The latter was killed and the mother was injured. London, March 29.

Sixteen medical men, including Dr McCall Anderson, Regius Professor at Glasgow University, and Dr Halliburton, Professor of Physiology at the King’s College, have published a manifesto in the Lancet, declaring that in disease alcohol is a rapid, and trust-worthy restorative, and that its moderate use as an article of diet is usually beneficial to men and women. Genena, March 29.

Madame Bontieff has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and twenty years’ expulsion from Switzerland, for the murder of M. Muller, a wealthy Parisian, at Interlaken, in September last. The murdered man was mistaken for M. Durnovo, ex-Russian Minister of the Interior.