GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 13 May 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ENGINEERS' WAGES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyrich London, May 1). Subject to ratification by employers and men, the central conference at lurk, on tlio issue between the Clyde engineers and the employers, has agreed to a farthing advance in June and another in January. The agreement will remain in operation for three years. FATAL MI.VE EXPLOSION". New York, May 11. By an explosion at Boston mine at Seranton, Pennsylvania, five men were killed. EXTRAORDINARY SNOWSTORMS. New York, May 11. The extraordinary snowstorms which have occurred in the prairie provinces mean the loss of a million dollars to farmers. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. Paris, May 11. Ferdinand Darrast, the well-known militant Catholic leader, has mysteriously disappeared. His clothes have been found on the bank of the Seine, but the theory of suiciue is rejected. TREMENDOUS THUNDERSTOR MS. Berlin, May 11. There have been tremendous thunderstorms in West and South Germany, and many deaths have been caused by lightning. DEFRAUDING THE REVENUE. Berlin, May 11. The Bavarian Revenue Department is suing the heirs of the late Eittcr von Kleom, a millionaire member of the Un per House, for £IBO,OOO on the ground that for twenty years he valued his property at from two to four million marks, whereas it was really worth forty millions. RUSSIAN PREMIER CENSURED. St. Petersburg, May 11. The Duma, by 202 to 82. passed the Octoborists' resolution condemning M. Stolypin's use of the prerogative in connection with the Zemstvos in the western provinces. CHINESE FROZEN PRODUCE. London, May 11. A steamer has arrived at Liverpool with 16,000 carcases of Chinese pork, 72,000 cases of frozen goods, 10.000 cases of lard, and 1000 cases of eggs.