GENERAL CABLES.
ENGLISH LABOR RETURN'S. By GiWe—Press Association—Copyright. Received 17, 9.45 p.m. London, January 17. The Board of Trade report on labor in 1910 states that returns relating to 700,000 members of trades unions show the mpan of the monthly percentages of unemployed to be 4.7. Tlf> net effect of all changes reported to the Department show an increase of £13,891 stcr'ling a week in 534,119 workpeople's wages. A DECLINING BIRTH-RATE. Received 17, 9.45 p.m. Vienna, January 17. The census .elves Virnna 2,004.291 people, exclusive of the 'garrison. The slowness of increase is due to a decline in the birth-rate to 20 per 1000. RE-FLOATED. Received 17, 9.45 p.m. Amsterdam, January 17. The Selby Abbey has 'been re-floated.
THE PLAGUE IN CHINA. Received 18, 12.40 a.m. Pekin, January 17. One death from plague is reported at Tientsin, and five at Yung-ping-fu.
FIRE AT A PALACE. Received 18. 12.35 a.m. Berlin, January 17. A fire at Dresden Palace partially destroyed valuable pictures representing the Kings and Queens of Saxony, also Princess' Matilda's art treasures. WHITE SEA FISHERIES. Received 18, 1.5 a.m. St. Petersburg, January 17. Britain has taken action regarding the White Sea Fisheries Bill. [The Bill limits areas in which foreigners may conduct their fishing operations.]
NEW CANADIAN GEATX ROUTE. Received IS, 1.5 a.m. Ottawa, January 17. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, states that the Cabinet is considering the question of appropriations for preliminary work on the Georgian Bay waterway scheme, a new water route for grain from the Great Lakes .to Ottawa. A FIND OF PHOSPHATES. Received 18, 1.5 a.m. New York, January 17. Phosphate beds, believed to be of great commercial value, have been discovered in Western Montana. A NARROW ESCAPE. Received IS, 1.5 a.m. Ottawa, January 17.' Mr. Gilbert, a French-Canadian member of the Federal House, narrowlv /.scaped asphyxiation by coal gas through the defective heating apparatus at his Ottawa residence. His family was rescued unconscious,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 18 January 1911, Page 5
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