GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 309, 8 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION. By Cable— Press Association.—-Copyright New York, February Q. Eleven men were killed by an ex- | plosion in the Earnest Colliery.. Pennsylyania. GERMANY'S LATEST CRUISER. Berlin, February 6. The new cruiser Mainz steamed at the rate of 29 2-5 knots an hour. KAISERIN TO VISIT ENGLAND. Berlin, February 0. The newspaper Danzig Tageblatt states that the Kaiierin and her daugh •ter will visit England in the spring. i AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE. London, February 6. A man working at the Meadow Colliery, Staffordshire, pushed a tub into the shaft, under the mistaken impression that the cage was at the top. lie fell 'with the tub 249 feet into water ajid l wa» rescued uninjured. THE RIGHT TO WORK BILL. London, February G. The Telegraph s-aloulates, on data furnished by ilr. John Ward and Mr. Ramsav Mac Donald, that the cost of the Right-to-Work Bill will be £30,000,000 annually. FREE TRADE SIGHTING FUND. [ London, February G. i : The Chronicle's free trade lighting fund amounts to nearly £3OOO. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. London. February C>Carew Martin, assistant secretary of the Royal Society of British Artists, was remanded on bail at Bow fetieet on acharge of forging the name of the society's treasurer and embezzling £ISOO in numerous' sums. Prisoner is prominent in the art world, and is a grandson of John Martin, the painter. GERMAN INDISCRETION. St. Petersburg, February G. The German professors' manifesto upon Russian designs; against Finnish autonomy has provoked mupli anger throughout Russia. AIRSHIPS FOR RUSSIA. . St. Petersburg, February •>. The Defence Committee of the Duma recommends' the purchase of a flotilla of airships and the acceleration «f plans Alealin" with enemies' airships in war time. ... * * 'i