GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 305, 30 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

RAILWAY DISASTER. ;li Bombay, December 27. lwo north-western trains at Lahore 1 collided, and twenty people, including four Europeans,, were killed. The sta- 1 tiomnaster has been arrested. ->

BUIMILINU FOll FI X. London, December 27. It transpires that members of Eaton Ilall house party burgled Cholmondoley Castle for fun; TRADES UNIONISM. London, December 27, The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress lias circularised the Unions urging thenj to strive to abolish systematic overtime with a view to providing extended employment. RUNTS IN NEW YORK. New York, December 27. Ton thousand of the poorer tenants of the cast end of New York refuse to pay their rents unless they are substantially reduced. JAPANESE EMIGRATION TO BRAZIL Tokio, Dec mber 27. llie tide of Japanese emigration is turning towards Brazil. SPANISH AMBITIONS. Madrid, December 27. The newspaper Imperial urges that Aiug Alfoqso should visit the- South American Republics. : ■ i.:i

A VANDYCK. FOR FOUItPENCE. Brussels, December 27. An authentic Vandyok portrait, which was given to his sister, a nun, has been sold for fourpence at auction among a lot of rubbish from the convent at Walminister, Flanders. DISINFECTING SHIPS. Hamburg, December 27. A ship named the Disinfector is eveliiisively engaged here in the fumigation of vessels and killing rats by Professor Nocht's system. BANK immSTPUX/SHEL). Brussels, December 27. ' Loyson has been senteiiced_to twelve months' imprisonment for bank robbery, liie receivers of the proceeds wore fieutenced to imprisonment varying from three months to two years. °

:1 RECORD POSTAL BUSINESS, f Sydney, JJocem)>er 2H. , _ J'lic _ general post office find such a ' gigantic volume of Christmas business , tlmt affairs were in a chaotic state. Tho I delivery of post cards mimftering half a , million, weighing 4000 pounds, is sus- | pended temporarily. ' ' VICTORIAN FLOORS, Melbourne, December 28. Victorian flocks, in the past three years, have increased from ten millions to thirteen million sheep. MEAVYi ,RATN IN .AUSTRALIA./ Sydney, December 28. JTciivy nun is falling in all tlie eastern Mates. WRECKS ON SEA OF FINANCE. New York, Jieeembcr 27. Ernest Rtadman, vice-president of t|ie J. C. T.yons Building Oompajjy, York, which failed for l|i' s losses being £500,00(1, committed si|icji)g under a subway full), /" 5.0T0R JOURNEY ABANDONED. Adelaide, December 28. The motorists Dutton and* Aurger were unable to get beyond Twinots' * Creek owing to rnin. They have abandoned the journey until the wet season is past.

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