GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 250, 1 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

BURNED TO DEATH. | By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. St. Petersburg, February 27. ' Through the upsetting of a lamp in a pavilion where twenty-nine workers i were sleeping fifteen of them were burnt to death. STRUCK ON A ROCK. London, February 27. The steam trawler Senator struck al rock and foundered in the North Sea. I There were ten fatalities. FIREMEN KILLED. London, February 27. Two firemen were killed and one injured by the collapse of a burning floor in a fire at Cohen's, rag merchants, in Bankside, Southwark. WATER CONSERVATION. Buenos Ayres, February 27. The proposed construction of dams in the province of Jujuy will cost nine million dollars. SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION. Capetown, February 27. The South African proposal to discuss bi-lingualism for white children at the Imperial Education Conference has been withdrawn in deference to a request from London. PERISHED FROM COLD. St. Petersburg, February 27. A derelict barque has been discovered at Astrakhan heavily surrounded by ice, and containing thirty bodies which had been frozen to death. A SERIOUS FIRE. Paris, February 27. A great fashions emporium and some houses at Elbeuf were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at millions of francs.