GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 13 February 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE WARATAII ENQUIRY. By Cable—.Press Association—Copyright.. London, February 10. Tlic decision in the Waratah enquiry has been postponed till February 22. TAXING BACHELORS. New \ork, February 10. The town of Ellensburg, in tbe Slate of Washington, has decided to tax bachelors and spinsters over twenty-seven years old. AN EARTHQUAKE FISSURE. St. Petersburg, February 10. At Yernyi an earthquake made a fissure in the earth 24 feet wide and 33 mile.s long. SOUTH WALES MINERS. London, February 10. The application of the South Wales Miners' Federation for an increase in wages has been withdrawn. THE BITER BIT. New York, February 10. A thief who robbed a cafe of £OOO was himself held up at the entrance and robbed of his spoil. TIIE YEMEN OUTBREAK. Constantinople, February 10. Fifty thousand troous have been ordered to "Vernon. The Arabs are withdrawing their camels to inaccessible mountains, a step which threatens serious transportation difficulties. ADRIFT ON THE ICE. St. Petersburg, February 10. Icebreakers' efforts to rescue the fishermen carried to sea on the ice from Bjorko Sound, have proved fruitless. It 13 presumed that 153 of the fishermen have perished.