GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 351, 31 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TRAGEDY IN A THEATRE. By Cable, —Press Association. —Copyrighv London, March 20. Jesshope, a former employee at Cuin- , berwell Empire Theatre, staobed Healey,, a stage carpenter, to death after last night's" performance. FIRE IN A COAL MlNfi. London, March 29. The Northumberland colliery has resulted in fire gaining hold of the Radcliffe colliery owing to neglect ot the fire barriers. The owners are flooding the mine, which has thrown thousans of hands out of work. POSTAL CLERKS' RIGHTS. | London. March 29. Mr H. L. Samuel, Postmaster-General, attended the Postal Clerks' Association Conference and endorsed his predecessor's recognition of trade unions, but did not refer to the conference resolution claiming freedom in the exercue of political rights. THE HUNGARIAN HOLOCAUST. ! Vienna, March 29. The official report states that 300 were killed and 70 injured, all seriously, •by disaster in Oekoerits, a small village in Hungary. [A building caught fire during a (dance, and the roof fell in, while the dancers were unable to get away owing to the doors being closed.] SPIES IN THE PHILIPPINES. Manila. March 29. Two Japanese, who lately arrived in the Philippines, bribed a member of an American Engineer Corps' to take , photographs and secure plans. Upon discovery, the engineer revealed the i scheme. Japanese residents declare that the prisoners were acting for a ' European Power. THE STEAMER LOODIANA. London, March 29. Seychelles! advices yesterday state j that a steamer from the Islands reports that there -•*• ~j signs of the steamer j Loodiana «,« Cosmoledo. [A cable received on Monday stated that the Loodiana, which left Mauritius for Colombo on January 10, was' ashore at Cosmoledo.] I SOLDIERS CAUGHT IN A FLOOD. | Capetown, March 29. I Six hundred men of the Wiltshire | Regiment, accompanied by Lord Methuen, left for Pietermaritzburg to surprise a militia camp. A storm caused a watercourse to rise suddenly, and 150 of their number were isolated on an island caused by the torrent. Four were drowned. j ' I AMERICAN WATERWAYS TREATY. London, March 29. The Morning Post's Washington correspondent states that the Rt. Hon. ! James Bryce, British Ambassador, lias 1 notified Canada's acceptance of the waterways treatyj _ | THE EARTH'S MOTION. I London, March 29. Professor Milne, s'eismographer, has proved that the •earth, at a mile and a half from the sea swings diurnally with the tides. In the Irish Sea it depresses the shores, producing a deflection equal to an inch in sixteen miles. i