GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 17 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FATAL RAILWAY COLLISION. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 10, 10 p.m. 1 Paris, January 16. A passengf'-r train collided with a ballast train at Vire. Two drivers and a stoker were killed, and several injured, two dangerously. FURTHER EARTHQUAKES AT VYERNYI. Received 16, 10 p.m. St. Petersburg, January IG. Loud rumblings and shocks re-alarmed the. people at V.vernyi. Many walls damaged by the previous earthquakes were destroyed.

LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED. Received 10, 10 p.m. Vienna, January 10. Details of the colossal over-subscription ot the Hungarian loan show that applications were received totalling £a53,000,OflO. Five hundred millions were subscribed in Germany, sixty-six in Austria, sixteen in Hungary, and the remainder in Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland. RECRUITING NEGRO TROOPS. Received 10, 11.30 p.m. Paris, January 10. Colonel Mangin, who was entrusted Willi the mission to Africa, with a view of recruiting negro troops, declares that it is possible to recruit forty thousand blacks, and that two regiments could be easily formed in 1911, one of which could be utilised in French Nigeria territory. AN ANATOMICAL PUZZLE. Received 10, 11.30 p.m. London, January 10. The Bohemian twin sisters. Yosefa and Rosa Blazok, inseparably joined together, have arrived from undergo examination by the Gener, cal Council. The authorities at-wing's Cross claimed two fares instead of one. Final decision is reserved.