GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 31 January 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A MISSING VESSEL. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. • London, January 29. Several lifebuoys and belts belonging to the missing Wilson liner Genoa have been found near Berwick. WINTER IN ENGLAND. London, January 29. Twenty degrees of frost were recorded in many parts of England and the floods are abating. EARTHQUAKE IN SCOTLAND. London, January 29. An earthquake shock was felt at Loch Lomond. CANADIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Ottawa, January 29. Mr. Donald Mann, of the Canadian Northern Railway, narro>vly escaped injury through a rockslide derailing a portion of the Vancouver-Seattle train. Several of the train crew were injured. I A PRISONER'S ESCAPE. Paris, January 29. Devos, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for robbery, escaped by a wire ladder lowered from the gallery of the Palace of Justice overlooking the exercise ground. ' A DAY TOO LATE. New- York, January 29. . At Tacoma a bookkeeper, named H. M. Forbes, committed suicide owing to financial troubles the day before news arrived that a fortune had been left him by a rich aunt in Massachusetts. THE BOTTOMLEY BANKRUPTCY. London, January 29. Mr. Bottomley has submitted an offer, guaranteeing at least 7s 6d in the £. GERMAN SOCIALISTS' SUCCESS. London, January 29. Mr. Henderson, M.P., speaking at Stafford, said the Socialist victory in Germany inspired the Labor Party in Britain not to rest until it secured a similar position in the British Parliament. If the Government departments continued unsympathetic towards fair wages, the Government would be shaken to its foundations, BRAVE LIFE SAVERS.

London, January 29. Two policemen and a fireman were removed to a hospital, having been injured in heroically rescuing three children from a fire amid dense smoke in a house in Mile End road. Neighbors rescued two others.