GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 14 September 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

FAILURE OP RICE CROPS. ! By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, J Singapore, September 12. / The failure of the rice crop in Sia«i j is threatening a famine in Singapore. | Prices have doubled in three days. Coolie disturbances are feared. DROWSED AT A FORD. Berlin, September 12. While a detacliment of Uhlans were crossing the Elbe, an officer and ten men were drowned. ETNA AGAIN ACTIVE. Rome, September 12. Another crater has opened in the vol(cano Etna. Lava descended half a kilometre in an hour. A. BIG LEGACY. London, September 12. Sergeant-Major Smith, a doorkeeper at a music hall in Cardiff, and his brothers and sisters have succeeded to their brother's estate, valued at £2,000,000, the proceeda of an oil well in Canada. THE PAPANUI EIRE. St. Helena, September 12. The crew of the Papanui were five days extinguishing a fire in the bunk- j era. Another fire broke out after pass-! ing St. Helena, whereupon the captain returned and moored the vessel clase to the shore. The male emigrants are being housed in liarraoks and the women in the military hospital. STEAMSHIP COMBINE. Berlin, September 12. The passenger pools of the German, English,. French, Dutch and Spanish steamship companies with regard to Argentina and Brazil have been diisi solved in consequence of the other parties declining to grant the North German Lloyds an increased allotment at Santiago. THE SOFTOOL STRIKE. London, September 12. The presence of policemen' at Shoreditch and Islington Schools a renewal of the scholars' strike.