GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 295, 22 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE "JOHANNESBURG" COMET. By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, January 20. Professor Hanks at the Cambridge Observatory, observed the Johannesburg comet. The nucleus was equal to that of Mercury. A tail measuring two degrees was 1 visible to the naked eye. THE CZARINA. St. Petersburg January 20. The Czarina's condition has slightly improved.

A " HOSED" SUFFRAGETTE. London, January 20. The Manchester County Court awarded Miss Davison, a suffragette, 40s damages against the visiting Justices at Strangways Gaol, who ordered a ho=e to play upon her cell. -THE'-tM TARIFF. Ottawa, January 20. Sir Wilfrid Laurier ; replying in ,the Dominion Hous'e of Commons to Mr. Foster, said the Government was ot opinion that Canada was included with Great Britain in the American minimum tariff, but in the absence of the Hon. W. S. Feilding, Minister for Finance, he would not care to make any definite statement. THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST. New Xork, January 20. At the factory fire at Philadelphia an electric wire fused in the third storev. A panic was caused Ivy the utter absence of discipline, and the stair became blocked. Frenzied women jumped from the fourth, fifth, and sixth storeys, though the crowd shouted to them to wait for the fire escapes. At least a I dozen girls were killed, and others are probably under the collapsed building. There are twenty girls in the hospital | and several are unlikely to recover.

ACTIVITY AT KRUPPS. London, .January 20. The Daily Mail's Essen correspondent says tliat lvrupps', in view of meeting with plentiful orders, will have considerable extensions made to their ordnance works t>y the end of 1010. When the extensions are completed a thousand extra men will be employed. The Chinese commissioners have given a provisional order for -CIOO,OOO worth of heavy pins.