GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 299, 21 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

COFFEE 111SES IN PRICE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, January 20. | Brazilian coffee in London has risen GO per cent., and other more generally consumed coil'ee 20 per cent. THE DECLARATION OF LONDON. London, January 19. The Royal United Service Institution discussed the Declaration of London. Admiral Fremantl'e said that the overseas Dominions had an immense interest in the question which had not been sufficiently considered. Australasia's mercantile marine, he continued, was the fourth largest in the world. A DISASTROUS DERAILMENT. New York, January 19. Eleven passengers and live trainmen were injured in the derailment of the Overland Limited on the Salt Lake railroad. The disaster was due to a defective switch. POWDER MAGAZINE EXPLOSION. New York, January 19. A powder magazine at Keating mine, Raderburg, Montana, exploded, killing six and injuring two men. The force oi the explosion was felt miles away. A RAILWAY FATALITY. London, January 19. An express dashed into a gang ot platelayers at Battersea, killing three and injuring two. A PARALYSING STRIKE. Mexico, January 19. A strike has paralysed traffic for 1000 miles on the Mexican branch of the Southern Pacific Railway. The company refuse to grant the demands for higher wages. NEW HARBOR WORKS. Madrid, January 19. i The Spanish Government will construct a harbor at Melilla, Morocco, at a cost of £BOO,OOO. UNIDENTIFIED PACKAGES. Copenhagen, January 19. Packages marked Sydney and Melbourne have come ashore at Vendsyssel. It is uncertain whether they have been lost overboard from the steamers Athenic, Akershus, or Apolda, all of which were recently in the vicinity. ANTI-ANAROHISTS. New York. January 19. The United Mine Workers of America, who are meeting at Columbus, Ohio, refused entrance to the convention to Emma Goldman, a well-known anarchist. FLOODS IN OREGON. New York, January 19. Portland, Oregon, is isolated by big floods. IRISH RIOTS. London, January 19. There has been rioting during the Armagh city municipal elections. Twelve shops were wrecked, and a man was hurled through a window and badly injured. A hundred police have been dispatched to the scene. POLITICAL DISTURBANCES. London, January 19. Reuter's agent chronicles political disturbances at Curepipe and Port Louis, Mauritius. A mob attempted looting, and military patrols are now maintaining order. ALLEGED ILLEGAL ARREST. New York, January 19. Pietovitch Varawa has issued a writ against Howard Smith and Co. claiming £25,000 damages for alleged illegal arrest and false imprisonment arising out of negotiations to purchase the steamer Peregrine during the Russo-Japanese war. TIIE MIKADO'S VENGEANCE. Tokio, January 19. Twelve of the anarchist plotters havej been committed to imprisonment for life. Dr. Kotoku and his wife, and the remainder will be executed. A RED SEA REVOLT. Constantinople, January 19. It is officially announced that Turkey is sending thirty battalions of infantry and a considerable force of artillery to crush the revolt in Azir Yemen, on the Arabian littoral of the Red Sea. CONVICT' HEROES. Ottawa, January 19. A Canadian-Pacific train was derailed on the Owen Sound branch line, and a number of passengers seriously injured. A gang of convicts aboard the train were unhurt, and rendered gallant ser- j vice in rescuing passengers. One extinguished a fire which threatened to consume a coach by piling snow on it. The passengers later petitioned the At-torney-General at Ontario to recognise the bravery of the convict gang. RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES IN PERSIA. London, January 19. The Teheran correspondent of The Times points out as an indication that is significant that during the Mohunrun festival, when the Persian Shiah fanaticism was formerly always most pronounced, the Nedjeft and Nujtehids issued manifestos exhorting Simnis and Shiahs to sink all their differences ann combine, as the Muhlahs of the two sects in Bagdad had done, to protect Turkey and Persia from the pretensions I of foreign Powers.