GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 35, 4 August 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A GREEK MERCHANT'S BEQUESTS.! By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. : London, August 2. Corgjalegno, a Greek merchant, who left nearly half a million to Greek charities, also bequeathed £40,000 for improvements in the Greek army and navy. FURRY STEAMER DISASTER, New York, August 2. The ferry steamer Syracuse struck a »hoal in the St. Lawrence, near Mnssena, and capsized, hurling 75 passenger* imte the river. Another craft rescued all except seven. Pour women's bodies 1 have been recovered. CfIRUISEIt IN DAGGER OF SINKING. Ottawa, August 2. The cruiser Niobe, which is stationed at Halifax, is in danger of simkrjg, a» the salvage steamers are unable to cope with the rising water. A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. Addis Abibeba, August 2. Twenty tons of gunpowder exploded on the railway works at Diredaona, killing eight and injuring many. CATTLE DISEASE PREVENTION. Capetown, August 2. The Government veterinary has discovered! a method of rendering cattle immune to East Coast fever, which has been responsible for wholesale mortality for several years past.

HEAT LN LONDON. London; August 2; One hundred and fifty-eight babies in London have died from enteritis during the past week owing to the heat. CANCER AND TOBACCO. i»ndon, August 2. Sir Henry Britlin, at the meeting of the International Dental Federation, said that cancer of the tongue rarely attacked! a person free from leucoplakia, of which rheumatism and gout 'Were the predisposing causes, and the exciting cause was tobacco.

RICH RUSSIAN WOMAN'S DEATH. • St. Petersburg, August 2. fke death has taken place of Madame Morozoff, aged 84..-She left a fortune of £8,000,000, and was the owner of the largest cotton mills in Russia.

A HOTEL BURNED. Berlin, August 2. The Royal Kurhause Hotel at Pyrmont has been destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at £125,000. Hundreds of 9cantily-clad visitors escaped in the middle of the night. The fire waa due to the spontaneous combustion of fireworks which were stored in a mud bath. COLD STORE ON FIRE. London, August 2. During a Arc in the Union Cold Storage Works, in Thames street, the firemen were overcome by ammonia; fumes, and twelve were rendered unconscious, including the superintendent, who was seriously frost-bitten. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. Paris, August 2. The Echo de Paris states that Herr Kiderlin Waschter, German Foreign Minister, asked M. Cambon. the French Ambassador in Berlin, for the cession of the island of Tahiti, in the Pacific, to Germany.