GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 172, 19 January 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ROBBERS IN VANCOUVER. By Gable—Press Association—Copyright, Vancouver, January 17. Hold-ups and robberies are so numerous in Vancouver that the Mayor has sworn in special constables and additional detectives. Prompt efforts are to be made to exterminate the criminal element. Most of the criminals arrive from the United States. BALLET DANCERS GO ON STRIKE. Paris, January 17. A strike of the ballet in the middle of a performance in the Opera House necessitated a dispersal of the audience. The performers demanded that their wages should be raised from £l2O to £l5O. EXPLOITING NEW PATENTS. London, January 17. A company with a capital of £2,500,t)00, has been formed an England to acquire the patents of the "Permutit" system of purifying water, and the "Luminator" patents for preventing scale in pipes and boilers. IMPRISONED IN GERMAN FORTRESSES. London, January 17. Letters received recently from Lieut. Trench, who is imprisoned as a spy in a German fortress, discount the theories as to his attempt at suicide being due to a desire to escape. He did not .complain of his treatment, but severely criticised Captain Lux for escaping, when he perfectly understood that lenient treatment was conditional on prisoners not attempting to escape. SUGAR CONVENTION. Berlin, January 17. Sugar experts have unanimously decided on the absolute rejection of the proposal at the Brussels Convention for Russia to increase her export quota. REVOLUTION IN PARAGUAY. Asuncion, January 17. The supporters of General Rojas are endeavoring to check the revolution. There has been a considerable amount of street fighting, and numbers have been killed iind injured. The insurgents are still masters. FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER. Paris, January 17. The steamer Vanadis, from the Tyne for Civita Vecchia, Italy, foundered with a crew of 23, after leaving Ushant. PLAGUE AT DURBAN. Capetown, January 17. There have been two cases of plague at Durban, of which one has proved fatal. A COUNTESS' ESTATE. London, January 17. The personality in the estate of Caroline, Countess of Seaficld, has been proved at £210,004. DUKE OF OONNAUGHT. New York, January 17. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught intend paying an informal visit to Mr. Whitelaw Reid, American ambassador in England. , FIRE IN~NEW YORK. New York, January 17. Fire swept a seven-storey warehouse of the Terminal Warehouse Company near North River. Several firemen were seriously injured, and the loss is estimated at £250,000.