GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 12 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

STORM IN CANADA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, i Ottawa, January 10. I The worst storm for years is raging ; on the Canadian prairies with cold ana | snow. A POLICEMAN SHOT. New York, January 10. A policeman at Los Angeles was shot by an unknown man whom he accosted in the streets. AN OFFICER REPRIMANDED. New York, January 10. Commander Sims, the United States : naval officer who recently made an indiscreet public utterance in London, is to be reprimanded. STAFF OFFICERS' CONFERENCE. London, January 10.

General Nicholson is presiding over a conference of seventy general staff officers at Camberley. The proceedings are confidential.

CHEAPER MEAT DEMANDED. Vienna, January 10. In pursuance of a threat to dynamite the butchers at Stanislau unless fresh meat was forthcoming, two butchers named Moexkov were fatally injured by an explosion on their premises.

POWDER FACTORY EXPLOSION. Buenos Ay res, January 10. A powder factory in the village of San Martin exploded and twelve persons were killed,

FISHERMEN'S LUCK. St. Petersburg, January 10. An ice floe at Astrakhan carried to sea eighty-five fishermen. A steamer was sent and they were rescued.

POPE'S INFLUENCE IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, January 10. A ministerial circular informs Roman ! Catholic Bishops that Papal orders and encyclicals unless passing through Government channels are not obligatory on Russian subjects. MONACO. Paris, January 10. Though Monaco has only fourteen hundred native citizens the Prince granted a constitution, a national council, and universal suffrage. The Young Monaco Party, which has its headquarters at Paris, is dissatisfied, and threatens violence. A RUSSIAN RECORD. St. Petersburg, January 10. There were 27 suicides and attempted suicides in St. Petersburg during the Christmas holidays, three thousand arrests for drunkenness, and thirty deaths from alcoholic poisoning.