GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 703, 30 December 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

New York, December 27. The snowstorm and blizzard were the worst experienced in th; Eastern States for twenty years. Railway, telephone and telegraph services in New York are paralysed. Tens of thousands of belated suburbanites were forced to walk home through the snowdrifts on Christmas night. Later. ' The blizzard caused eighteen deaths in the vicinity of New York. Many vessels are ashore. A schooner foundered off Boston, twelve lives being lost. Berlin, December 28. The Shanghai correspondent of the Cologne Gazette reports that the Regent, Prince Chun, was stabbed outside the Palace, being wounded slightly in the abdomen. His assailant, a revolutionary from the disturbed districts in Southern China, was arrested. Madrid, December 28. The Houlder steel screw steamer Southern Cross, 4596 tons gross, for South America, which went ashore in Vigo harbour, on the west coast of Spain, has broken in halves. [The passengers 1 were saved. The cargo and hull were valued at .£94,000.] London, December 27. Referring to the murder of Mr Jackson and the Nasik conspiracy, the Bombay correspondent of the Times says The discovery of an arsenal at Nasik shows that the Arms Act has failed, and that it needs revision, and the strengthening of the machinery to prevent illicit importation. Resolute use should be made of the power of deportation.” Referring to confessions by criminals that they were inspired by the vernacular press, the correspondent remarks: —“ What Is required is to make the Sedition law more operative, by taking security from all newspapers, and registering editors and managers. It is believed the Government of India sought these powers, but that they have been denied them.”