GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 14 February 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

THE WOOLWIC'II EXl'UtijlOX. London. February 12. Tin' Woolwich cxpluriiim. t-liii'lly caused by cordite, was iioanl 51 miles distant, but on the south of the river was heard only for a. distance of milts, owing to the hills inU'rvrniiig. The explosion occurred in (lie early morning ill a laboratory of the magazine, when the workmen wen' absent. A gasholder, containing 3:10,(100 feet of gas collapsed, tile gas taking lire. TilK JIIiXING.J'JS KCOUUUK London, February 12. Deattlis fifoni cerebrol-,>pina( meningitis are increasing in Dublin, Edinburgh, and Belfast. Twontysix occurred in Glasgow in three days, cnielly among the poorest class.

THK lIA(.U;E conffuknck, London,. February 12. Professor l)e Martens, President o! flic I lay tie Tribunal, is in London negotiating with the Coycrmneni in reference; to the next meeting. He i> satislied that Uerinaiiy, the United State-, ami France will help the Hague Conference. lie expects that P»>wers will lie i epres'nted, and tlial the i|Ui'htions of disarmament and tin- limitation of armaments are certain to be discu-sed. Personally he is convinced that it will be* impossible to obtain practical roull* al present. AS ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. | London. February l:i.

Captain Sliarkhjton cuymiauds ti »• l»rilis;i Antai'Hic (expedition leaving in October for New Zealand. lie hinds ;i party ;it the Discovery's winter quarters, ninl returns (,i Lyttoiton. Hie next yi'iir picking up fln; explorer-;. While t f ic expedition Imprs I; > lit iul a party at Mount Melbourne to li'v and reach the magnetic Pole, iU main ohject will he to pursue discoveries and create a new Farthest South record. To reach the geographical South Pole it is intended to use a, mulor car suitable tn tile ice. DISIU.SKD JUOAT. London, February .12. A pig from Murphy's Circle., Queensland, was co|leini(. ; ,il at UmiUilioM. fl. was badly allccled with p'eiuisv. Tlx- Hiksrocii arc indiynan,. at (lie laxi ity uf tin: olliciaU in allowing (!ie uiiiI lual 1o lie exported.

j ACCIDENT AT A TII CATItK. j "I'■■iili, February 1.1. I )nivnjjf a ihml i{i-!i| jwrfuniKinci- two hordes fell in iect through an aperture in tin- <lagc during a racing .scene. I lie riders wi'i'i' 11.>1 injured. (Ilic 1101-,■ iv a . killed. A IIIUTAI. lirilDKll. Melbourne, Vi-liriinvv 111. The body (if a ('lunainan was l',»„n.| in an nil shaft near Casl l ( . n iaiiic. The man liad li.cn brutally murdered anil thrown into ihc shall.