GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 19 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

MINING ELECTRICIANS.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 18, 10.50 p.m. London, January 18.

"Mr. Milium Scott, in a paper before the Mining and Electrical Engineers' Associal ion "on the use of electricity In New South Wales collieries, argued that when mine electricians' certificates were granted in Great Britain reciprocal recognition of colonial certificates should he granted.

GERMAN JUBILATION. Received 18, 10.50 p.m. Berlin, January 18. There was Teat jubilation on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the proclamation of Empire.

GERMANY'S GROWING TRADE. Received 18, 10.30 p.m. Berlin, January IS. Germain's 1910 imports were £430,450,000, and exports £373,350,000.

AN EXPLOSION AT SKA. Received 19, 12.15 a.m. New York-, January IS,

Ei«ht .wore killed and one injured in an explosion on the United States battleship Delaware bv the .bursting of a steam pipe. A vessel bound for Hampton Roads announced the disaster by wireless telegraphy to the Washington Navy Department,' but details are not available.

AMERICAN MINERS STRIKE. Received 19, 12,15 a.m. New York, January 18. A o-eneral strike is threatened on the iron and coal fields of Pennsylvania, and also amongst the Colorado mine workers.

CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Received 19, 12.15 a.m. ■ Ottawa, January 18. Lumbermen are urging Sir Wilfrid Laurier to include lumber in any preference arranged with Australia.