GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81856, 3 October 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

GRANTHAM RAILWAY DISASTER. London, Oc ober r. Mr Bell, M.P., commenting on the Grantham disaster, strongly denounces the employment of premium apprentices as firemen on express trains. CARNEGIE'S CHARITIES. London. Oc ober r. Mr Andrew Carnegie has informed Scottish public bodies tha he intends t.i distribute fifty-five millions during his lfetme for humanty's benefit, and invi'es sugestions for beneficial objects, excluding church services and he support of ministers. A BAVARIAN TRAITOR. B'rMn, October i. A sergeant employed in secretarial duties at Ingol-tadt, Bavaria, has disappeared with the mobilisation plans i f the Bavarian army. RUSSO-CHINESE FRONTIER.

Peking, October 1. Dr. I'oko■iloff, Russian Minister at Peking, hints at an ear'.y installation of Chinese Customs on the Russian frontier of Manchuria. The first section of the Peking-Kal gan railway has been opened. When he line js extended to Kiakhta. it wi'l bring Peking v.i bin twelve days ■>i London. MINING ACCIDENT. Melbourne, ()<■ ober 2. A trolly ran down a dip i> : <\v Jumhanna, coal mine. Fifteen men wre injured, fout (Richardson, linen. Brown, and Clarke) seriously. STRIKE IN TIMBER MILLS. Perth, October 2. Th' men engaged in the timber 1 mil : ~. with the excepion of the Kar-1 ridale mil!, have struck against a re duction of wages under the arbitration award. Three thousand workers are affected. DEMENTED MOTHER'S CRIME. Melbourne, Or ober 2. A dome dted mother named Mans field, at Narracan, Gippsland. murdered her two young children, almost decapitating them with a carving knife. She also cu* her own throat, but there arc chances of her recovery. THE MELBOURNE SENSATION. Melbourne, Oc ober 2. Two more packages containing b'.nes and other por ions of human remains wto found in the Albert Park !age.,n. Indication- are that the vieti mwas savagely hacked about the head. Limbs are -till mi-sing. Lumps of fle-h had been haek-d off the front and back of the trunl and the ribs sawn up. Sawdus: was freely used in packing the gruesome remains.