GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 279, 18 April 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

JAPANESE MINE EXPLOSION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Vancouver, April 10. Advices by steamer from Japan state that twenty-two were killed in a mine explosion at Hokkaido. DR. GREGORSON'S FATE. Calcutta, April IC. Dr. Grcgorson's fate is uncertain. Two hundred Ghoorkhn.s and a company of Mahrattas are being despatched to the Abor country. BOYS' FATAL DUEL. Received 17, 7 p.m. Rome, April 16. A perusal of accounts of remarkable duels led to two lads, aged ten and eleven years, fighting with eanes tipped with sharpened umbrella ribs. The elder lad was killed, his brain being penetrated. A STRANGE AFFAIR. Received 17, 7 p.m. London, April 16. A misprint in a popular medical book caused the death of a man. The widow has recovered damages from the author, who, with the chemist compounding the prescription, has been sentenced to three and one month's imprisonment respectively. AN ADEQUATE NAVY. Received 17, 7 p.m. London, April 16. The social and democratic conference passed a resolution favoring an adequate navy. TAXI-MEN PROTEST. Received 17, 9 a.m. London, April 16. A meeting of taxi-cab drivers protested against the proprietors seeking by an increase in fares to pass on the petrol tax to drivers, and threatened to strike. Action will be taken before the Government, investigation is completed. They also demand daily wages in lieu of per cent, takings. CADETS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Received 17, 7 p.m. Capetown, April 16. Lord Methuen, addressing boy scouts at Johannesburg, advocated a compulsory cadet system, lie welcomed Dr. Steyn's speech at Vrede emphasising the need of burgher forces. COMPENSATION FOR MIXERS. Received 17, 7 p.m. Capetown, April 16. A Bill compensating miners suffering from miners' phthisis has been read a second time in the Assembly. PROPAGANDA OF ZIONISM. Received 17, 7 p.m. Constantinople, April 16. The propaganda of Zionism, under German auspices, is being violently opposed on the ground that the movement foreshadows German economic conquest and exploitation of Mesopotamia. UNWANTED JESUITS. Received 17, 7 p.m. St. Petersburg, April 16. Leading Jesuits have been expelled from Moscow. The Novoe Vremya urges the expulsion of Polish Jesuits from St. Petersburg on the ground that they have obtained complete possession of the Roman Catholic schools. DEATH OF AN ALLEGED CARDSHARPER. Received 17, 7 p.m. Berlin, April 16. The newspaper Lokal Anzuger announces the death of Count Gicsliert Wold' Metternich. who was arrested with two others on December 16th for eardsharping. He had been sent to a hospital with a view to ascertaining his mental condition. \ ILLAGE FIRED BY CHILDREN. Received 18. 1.15 a.m. Berlin, April 17. Children playing with matches started a fire in the village of Lindau, near Duderstadt. Peasant farmsteads were destroyed. and much cattle and poultry. Owing to the 11 res drying the wells, the hoees yere insufficient to reach the stream. A MIXERS' COM PL. 1 INT. Received IS. 12.40 a.m. London, April 17. Meetings of Lothian and Durham miners protested against the clause ill the new Mines hut, making washing nt Ihe. pithead compulsory before going home. The men state that baths at the pithead make them liable to colds.