GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 228, 20 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

POSTED AS MISSING,

By Cable.—Press Association.—-Copyright.

London, January IS. The steamer Duneairn has been posted as missing.

A NATIVE AMBUSH. Paris, January 18. Advices from Casablanca state that natives ambushed a' French column, Lieutenant Marchand, a quartermaster, and three natives being killed and six wounded.

* A BITTER EXPERIENCE. . New York, January IS. After spending fifty hours on ice Hoes on Lake Huron, two fishermen were rescued by tugs.

FLOODS IN OREGON. New York, January 18. Heavy rain is causing disastrous floods in the State of Oregon.

SEIZURE OF OPIUM. New York, January 18. Twenty thousand dollars' worth of opium was seized on the steamer Korea at San Francisco, TIED TO A TREE. Paris, January 18. In connection with the statement that an American tourist named Miller was tied to a tree and robbed, it transpires that Miller is a mere hoaxer. He is noi an American. His real name is Rosenblum. He has been expelled from Germany, and is living from hand to mouth.

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. London, January 18. The Right Rev. F. VVinningtou-Ingram, Bishop of London, in a letter to Mr°Tristram, K.C., Chancellor of the Diocese, objects to the latter issuing certain marriage licenses in his own name and instructs the Chancellor that no license for a marriage with a divorced person or of a person with his deceased wife's sister is to be issued without the Bishop's personal assent in writing