GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 492, 9 October 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, October 6. Reports to hand from Vancouver, British Columbia, state that thirty men are imprisoned through a fire in the colliery of Dunsmuir, Ladysmith. Fourteen bodies have been recovered . The King has awarded firstclass Edward Medals to Michael Lyons and John Shields, for gallantry in connection with a subsidence of ore in the Mount Morgan mine, Queensland, on November 4 last, when several miners lost their lives.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has published a powerful indictment of Belgian misrule and atrocities in the Congo. Sir Arthur is heading a movement for mass meetings to be held with the view of forcing the Government to take decisive action.

Rome, October 7

Twenty-five girl workers in a dynamite factory in Benevento, a town of Campania, Italy, were terribly injured through a cauldron of phosphorous catching alight. Shocking scenes followed, the girls rushing into the streets with their hair and clothes aflame. A similar accident occurred at Milan, where some boiling tar, in a cauldrou, the lid of which had become jammed, exploded. Filteen workmen and a passerby were horribly burned. Sydney, October 7.

The steamer Wonga Fell, 3998 tons, from Ocean Island, ran into a submarine disturbance on September 28.

' The vessel was lifted completely off her course, rolling and vibrating violently. The disturbance lasted only a few minutes.

Mr Sharp, the chemist who, along with several others, was injured on Monday by the camphorated oil explosion at the East Sydney Pharmacy Company’s premises, is dead.

New York, October 6

Mr P. C. Knox, American Secretary of State, suddenly stopped Mr Crane, the newly-appoin-ted United States Minister to Peking, on the eve of his departure to take up his duties. The New York Sun alleges that Mr Crane had lately shown himself to be too talkative for a diplomatist.

Tokio, October 6

Marquis Katsura, Prime Minister of Japan, in an important speech at the Bankers’ Club, in Tokio, said the national finances were now on a sound footing, and it was possible to readjust taxation.

Funds were available towards redemption of the national debt, and the salaries of civil servants would be raised. Relations with the United States, the Marquis declared, were excellent.

Paris, October 7

A prehistoric skeleton, found in the post-tertiary rocks at Dordogne, in France, is believed to be 20,000 years old.