GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8160, 19 July 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BOYAIiTY IN DANGER. Chbistiasu, July 17. An avalanche started the horses attached to the carriage of Queen Maud of Norway, nearly precipitating it into a ditch ten feet deep. King Haakon's presence of mind averted the danger.

FATAL TRAMCAR COLLISION. JtoME, July 17. A oollisiou between two electric, tramcars has |occurrcd' between Some and Frasoati. Two persons were killed and fifty injured.

EUSSIAN CRUISER BEFLOATED. ToKio.July 17. The Japanese have refloated the Russian cruiser Novik, which went ashore off the island of Saglialien during the war. REPATRIATION OF GERMAN GIPSIES. London, July 17. Eight hundred German gipsies from the North of England have left Hull to march to London, in order to interview Mr Gladstone (Home Secretary), as they desire assistance to return to Germany. CONGO FREE STATE INJUSTICE. London, July 17. A missionary laboring in the Congo Free State statss that the GovernorGeneral of the Congo refused to allow the British Vicu-Conaul, Mr Armstrong, to obey Sir Edward Grey's instructions to act as counsel for the Rev. Mr Stannard, in the case wherein he was recently fined for libelling Major Ragstrom.

CRICKET TEAM FOR NEW ZEALAND. London, July 17. De Tafford, P. K. May, Simpson, Hayward, P.. R. Johnson; G, M. Branston, and W. J. Curwen have accepted the Marylebone Club's invitation to visit New Zealand.