GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 220, 18 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

IMMIGRANTS IN DIFFICULTIES. I By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. I Amsterdam, January Hi. . The authorities at Oldenzaal, finding j that Prussian police stopped G3O returni ing Russian emigrants on the ground > that they had inadequate means of sul>sistencc, confined them for several days in barracks and telephoned to thePrussian authorities and finally accepted an offer of the shipping company which brought them to Amsterdam to furnish a guarantee for their transit through Prussia. LEA.VTNS THE ARGENTINE. , Buenos Ayres, January 16. Owing to the expected failure of the maize crops through prolonged drought, 3800 laborers have embarked for Europe since Christmas. STORMS IN SPAIN. Madrid, January 10. The violent snowstorm which was raging in the Peninsula has now abated. Its chief characteristics were its suddenness and the violent barometrical oscillations accompanying it. " A STEEPLEJACK KILLED. London, January 10. Randolph Horsley, a steeplejack, was killed through falling 85 feet at Leeds. TIED TO A TREE. Paris. January 10. Miller, an American, has been found tied to a tree at Joinville-le-pont. He had beelT' robbed of his clothes and a . thousand dollars. > THE ROPE'S END. London, January IG. Advices from Rio de Janiero state I that the recent outcry against the use of the lash for offences on board ship started while an offender was receiving 150 lashes. . BALLOONISTS PERISH. , Berlin, January 10. I A balloon has been found in a lake] I near Wildenoruch, Pomerania. The] bodies of two men were within the car. A MONTE CARLO STORY.

London, January Mi. The Standard states that nine English Army captains are reported, on credible authority, to have won £200,000 at the Monte Carlo gaming tables in a fortnight.