GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 105, 11 August 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. By Cabie.—Press Association.—Copyright Madrid, August, 9. By a boiler explosion at Malaga four were killed and twenty-two injured. AN OFFICER'S ACCUSATIONS. London, August 9. Major Adam contends there was no real enquiry into the case of the five Lancer officers dismissed in 1007, and that General Scobell's. evidence alone was taken. EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. Sofia, August 9. By an explosion of dynamite in the military camp, seven men were killed and eighteen injured.

FLOODS IN JAPAN. Tokio, August 9. Floods at Shizouka, in Japan, submerged hundreds of houses, and caused a'landslide, burying a number of students and derailing trains. EARL SPENCER. London, August 9. Earl Spencer is in an alarming condition. He is suffering from epileptic fits, and is in a critical state. CATTLE MAIMING. London, August 9. A cattle maimer disembowelled a herd .near Wolverhampton. No arrest has been made:

RUSSIAN AGENT ASSASSINATED. St. Petersburg, August 9. %bak, an education official, has been •assassinated in the street at Cracow. The murderer states that Rybak was a Russian agent of provocation, employed by the Russian police, and that the Polish Workmen's Union ordered his murder. BOOT TRADE IN VICTORIA. Melbourne, August 10. 'lt is estimated that Mr. Justice Higgins' award will result in an increase, of at least £70,000 yearly in wages in the Australian boot trade. Fully 5000 adult workmen will benefit, the added wage averaging about 6s< a head weekly, and additional expenditure will be necessitated with regard to apprentices. The present award is binding on those employee only who were respondents in the Court proceedings, but the Boot Employers' Federation intend to apply for a common rule to extend the. award.