GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 224, 16 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FURTHER EARTHQUAKES. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Received 15, 5.5 p.m. London, January 15. Reuter's St. Petersburg correspondent reports renewed earthquakes. POOR LAW SYSTEM. Received 15, 5.5 p.m. London, January 14. The Poor Law Commission issued a five hundred-page report on foreign and colonial systems, including an interesting review of Australian poor relief and the New South Wales Labor Department A GREAT GOLDFIELD. Received 16, 1.15 a.m. Ottawa, January 15. English and Canadian capital is Mowing in for the purchase of claims on the new goldfield at Porcupine Lake on the borders of Hudson Bay. Many free gold veins have been discovered. The field is only thirty miles from the railway.

A FISHERIES AGREEMENT. Received 16, 1.15 a.m. Ottawa, January 15. An agreement, in which leading fishery questions are involved, has been reached between Canada, the United States, and Newfoundland, following negotiations at Washington. Details are not divulged, but modifications in certain fishery regulations are included, and it is not likely that further recourse will be had to the Hague, for the minor points, which involve diplomacy, are expected to be satisfactorily settled later. SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITY. Received IG, 1.30 a.m. - Berlin, January 15. It is reported that the German-Aus-tralian Steamship Co. is ordering twelvenew steamers, costing £850,000. A TERRORIST GANG. Received 16, 1.30 a.m. St. Petersburg, January 15. A gang of terrorists killed two railway officials at Warsaw, robbed passengers on the platform, and also two pedestrians in the street, escaping aftei killing one of the latter. BELLEVUE MINING DISASTER. Received 1(1. 1.30 a.m. New York, January 15. At an enquiry into tlie Bellevue mint disaster on oth December the jury returned a verdict that the cause was attributable to a ro«k-slide freeing a poisonous gas, and recommended a stricter adherence to mining law, and better life-protecting methods.