GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8744, 19 February 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Progs Association.— Copyright. Sydney, February 18. There is no sign of tho Ventura yet. Hobart, February 18. Arrived'—Waipori from New Zealand. Sydney, February 18. Four fresh cases of plague have occurred, three in one house. All are in tlie previously infected area. New York, February 18. The Bronx Park accident was apparently due to high speed round a curve, causing tlie rails to spread. Tlie cars overturned and fell on their sjdcs. The couplings still held and some coaolics were dragged furlongs. Many fell through the windows, and were crushed between tbe cars of tjio permanent way, while others were electrocuted by coming into contact with live wire. London, February 18. Owing to a break in tho gear twp runaway trams collided at Trimaran colliery, Kidwelly, Wales. Six persons were killed and many injured. A Eoyffil Commission has been appointed to inquire into tbe sanitary condition of Belfast, where many cases of cerebro spinal meningitis have occurred. Sydney, February 19. New South Wales and Queensland have declined to participate in the Commonwealth scheme for repatriating Australians stranded in South Airica. ‘ " ’ A ‘private cablegram imnougOfiK the death in India of Colonel Olcptt, president of the Tboosopbjcal Society. The City Council’s electric light operations during tho year yielded a gross profit of £19,416. Belgrade, February 18. regicides attacked several Servian deputies i;q the streets of Belgrade, dangerously wounding-oiap, because tbe newspaper organ of the deputies continuously attacked tbe regicides and the Court.