GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 178, 1 September 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

■* >%sa EARTHQUAKE AT PANAMA. By Cable.— Press Associatton.-CopyTigSl Received 31, 9.45 p.m. London, -August 81. A sharp shock earthquake was felt ■£ Panama. THE DOMBROVO MINING AOCIDEKT, 1 Received 31, 0.45 p.m. London, August 31. Twenty-two of ttoe entombed Dom- '■ broro miners saved themselves by retch. mg another old shatft. It is feared Uut the remainder perished. ITALY'S NAVAL PROGRAMME. Received 31, 9.45 p,m. m i ■ u . , Eo,m '' 4 31 - ' ' Italy is about to construct 24 800-Mn, destroyers and 120 torpedoe*. BISHOP AND CANON. Received 31, 9.45 pjn. London, August 31. Bishop Gote has abaodoned* the In* tended proceedings against Canon Hen. sen in connection <witW the bttw preaching at the Rev. J. H. Jowett 1 * tree Church Institute at Birminghua. ANOTHER OCEAN GREYHOUND*, " London, August 30. The firm of Swan, Hunter, and Wig. ham Richardson, Ltd., of Wallsend, & 'building a 20,000 ton Cunard liner Hot) feet long, with a beam of seventy feet, and faster than the Mauretania. This firm built the Mauretania, which has a gross tonnage of 32,000 tons and a speed of 24 knots an' hour. Tht iMauretania is 78.5 ft. in length and BMb beam. JAPAN'S WARSHIP PROGRAMME, Tokio, August SOU, Japan is constructing three 6000-to» cruisers. ■

CHOLERA IN HOLLAND. ■ \ Amsterdam, August SO. The outbreak of cholera has ipreii i to two villages' near Amsterdam. i FRENCH POSTAL SERVICE. ' j Paris, August JO, .. | Many of the dismissed postal officials; <j have been reinstated by M, MUlarUdl- i Minister for Public Worka. > J