GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

DEFECTIVE STEERING GEAR. By GaMe—Piress .Association—Copyright. Gibralter, January 29. The Implacable has abandoned the manoeuvres owing to a delect in her steering gear.

A MADMAN'S ACT. Berlin, January 29. I A workman, at Bochum threw his wife through a window, then strangled i his four children, and committed suicide 1 . HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE. Berlin, January 29. The Hamburg-American Steam Ship Company's gross profits for 1010 were £2,000,000. The company declared a dividend of 8 per cent.

A MISCALCULATION. Singapore, January 29,

Borings for the foundation of the great harbor scheme have been found to be in some instances sixty feei wrong. Cook and Son and Matthews, the engineers, blame the Straits Settlement Work 9 Department for the miscalculation.

RAILWAY ROBBERIES. Paris, January 29. Pillage of waggons at the Vaughiraro station, Paris, of bales of cotton and farm produce occur to the extent ot £40,000 annually. The waggons are insufficiently guarded.

POOR AT THE PANTOMIMES. London, January 29. The Playgoers' Club entertained thousands of the poorest children in London at the pantomimes.

A FRONTIER DISPUTE. London, January 29. Reuter states that the Ecuador and Peru frontier dispute has culminated iu open hostilities at several points on the frontier.

FOREIGN COMPETITION. London, January 29. It is reported that foreign firms are organising a foreign shopping week in London immediately after the "AllBritish" week observers.

A JEWEL ROBBERY. London, January 29. The occupant of a motor-car outsida Eusdens', jewellers, Belgravia, engaged Eusdens in conversation on the. pavement while an accomplice entered the premises, stole ,€SOO worth of diamonds, rushed into the car, arid was driven oft untraced.

A PEACEMAKER'S PUNISHMENT. Constantinople, January 29.

America has made a -strong protest to the Porte owing to soldiers when voyaging aboard the steamer New Jersey assaulting a Consular Agent as Alexandretta because he intervened in a riotous outbreak.

PETER THE PAINTER. London, January 29. A Lithunian, stated to resemble Peterthe painter, has been arrested at St, Ives, Huntingdonshire.

VAST COAL FIELDS. Ottawa, January 29. Drilling operations prove the existence of vast coal fields on Saturna and Tumbo Island, west of British Columbia.

ALLEGED KIDNAPPING AND SLAVERY. Perth, January 30.

The district magistrate at Karachi, India, has forwarded a • statement alleging that an Indian, four years ago, stole a black boy at Port Hedland, and now has him in India as a working slave. The statement alleges that the Indian's brother beat the boy's mother and hunted her away while he led the boy to the ship.

ALSACE-LORRAINE. Berlin, January 29. The Reichstag referred to a committee the proposed constitution of AlsaceLorraine. Alsatian deputies opposed the Bill on the ground that it was inadequate.