GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 297, 25 January 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A BOOK DAMNED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Received January 24, 9.50 p.m. London, .January 24. Mary Gaunt protests against libraries 1 censorship damning tier new West African novel. " The uncounted Cost." The Observer justifies her protest, and adds that " this elephantine censorship is farcical." A PERFORMANCE BANNED. Received January 24, 10.55 p.m. London, January 24. The censor banned the performance ot Strauss'' '• Salome" in tovcnt Garden Theatre. . ~gsV* THE BOY SCOUTS. Received January 24, 10.55, p.m. London, January 24. General Sir Baden-Powell is resigning from the finny in order to devote his time to the boy scouts. SOUTH AFRICAN WOOL EXPORTS. Capetown, January 23, The exports of wool from Cape Colony last year amounted to 207,1)14 bales, a record. VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE SHOCK. Paris, January 23. A most violent earthquake sliock was recorded at Paris, also at Tortosa, in Spain, and Brussels. The shock -was of long duration, and it is believed to have had its centre in the Caucasus or Armenia. EXPLOSION KliljLS 15 MEN. New York, January 23. During blasting- operations in a tunnel connected with the aqueduct between I Fishkill and the Hudson, p. premature explosion took place, killing fifteen wen. The accident is attributed to a workman stumbling with a lighted torch. STEALING STORES FROM A STEAMER. London, January 23. A Renter message states that 38 ot the kitchen and stewards' stall' on board the Kaiswin-Augusta, of the HamburgAmeriea line, are concerned in stealing' stores and provisions. SENTENCED TO DEATH. St. Petersburg, .January 23. Yosliresenski. who was arrested for attending ati anti-alcohol congress at St. Petersburg, lias been sentenced to death for (ho murder of Colonel Karpoll', chief detective of police at St. Petersburg. GETTING EVEN WITH A TRUST. New York. January 23. A Federal s'uit has been initiated ■against the Chicago beef trust under the anti-trust law. Over a million persons in America are now pledged to abstari from meat. Boston has joined tile movement. Beef in Ohio has been reduced 15 cents per 100 lbs. FINANCING A CHINESE RAILWAY. New Yor 1 ?-; January 2 : i. Advice lias been received here that; the llankow-Szeclman railway difficulty lias been settled. Great Britain, Krance, Germany, and the United States participating in the loan, and each taking onefourth. BUI'LOTNG FALLS ON A TRAIN. Brussels. January 23. A building' at Charleroi collapsed upon a passing train. Six people were killed.