GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 12 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

DAMAGE TO SHIPPING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. St. Petersburg. October 10. Ten lighters laden with grain, and fifteen with cosil and 1 cotton, have been seriously damaged or Mink during a gale. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London. October 10." Sir Edward Strachey. Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, states that foot and mouth disease in Somerset is serious in nine centres. The disease is not traceable to foreign feeding stuff. FLOODS IN COr/)I!ADO. New York, October 10. Reports from Denver states that with the telegraph and telephone service crippled and 300 miles of railroad out of commission only meagre reports are received from the flood-swept districts of South-western Colorado and Northwestern Mexico. There are rumors of a heavy loss of life, but there is no verification list available.

COMPENSATION CLAIM. London, October 10. In the case in which the Municipal Council of Johannesburg sued Stewart and Co., and their guarantors, Beardmore and Co.. claiming £400,000 for failure to complete the installation of the engineering work of an electrical plant, the Court of Session at Edinburgh decreed that Beardmores and Stewarts were jointly liable for £11,>.134, which was the extent of the liability guaranteed by Beardmores, and that Stewarts were also liable for £225,043. ANARCHIST TRAIN WRECKERS. Calcutta, October 10. Anarchists, who have attempted to derail thirty trains in Eastern Bengal, tore up eighteen feet of the railway, in order to wreck the Darjeeling mail, which was,erowded. Those travelling included several high officials returning from their holidays. A goods train which preceded the mail was completely wrecked, the driver and fireman being seriously injured.