GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 22 February 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

NEW TRADE ROUTE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received '22, 1.4 a.m. Sydney, February 21. The Australian agent of the HullBarnsley Railway Company is visiting Sydney with a view of promoting direct steamship service from Australia to Hull. GOOD RAINS. Received 21, 11 p.m. Sydney, February 21. Further general heavy rains have fallen, and feed is plentiful everywhere. The outlook for the winter is exceptionally good. A DOCK COLLAPSES. Antwerp, February 20. A dry dock in course of construction caved in, and two hundred workmen had a narrow escape. The contractors lost £20,000, and the work has been delayed by a year.

A GERMAN CRUISER. Berlin, February 20. The battleship cruiser Von der Tann sails for South America to-day. RELIEF CREWS. London, February 20. The warship Edgar will convey the new crews for the Torch, Fantone, and Sealark. A WESTRALIAN LOAN. London, February 20. A West Australian 3y 2 per cent, loan of £165,000 has been issued at 96%. The Stock Exchange is displeased, inasmuch as the whole of the loan was underwritten outside. BEET SUGAR PRODUCTION. ' London, February 20. Mr. Licht estimates that the production of beet sugar has increased by 702,000 tons, but the output for the season will be unchanged. RACE WAR THREATENED. New York, February 21. Consequent upon the killing of one negro and the wounding of another, a race war at Birmingham, Alabama, is imminent. A COUNT IN DANGER. New York, February 21. The authorities at Chicago are taking steps for the protection of the life of Count Albert Apponyi, formerly Minister of Education in the Austrian Cabinet. He is expected to arrive in Chicago to-day. The local Slavs allege that he was the cause of the massacres.

SNOWSTORMS CRIPPLING TRAFFIC. New York, February 21. A severe snowstorm is crippling the traffic in the Mississippi Valley.