GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 199, 20 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

BODY OF THE DUK:. .)F FIFE. By Cable—Press Ass»«atao»—Oepyrighb. Malta, February 18. The Powerful, which has the body of the late Duke of Fife on board, has sailed for Gibralter.

CRETAN DISORDERS. Canea, February 18. The protecting Powers have demanded the punishment of the murderers of a number of Mahommedans at Retimo. The local government authorities profess themselves powerless to comply.

RAVAGES OF WOLVES. Ottawa, February 18. Wolves are so numerous in the outlying districts of Quebec Province that the Government is taking steps to poison them. The National Park is particularly suffering from the ravages of the animals.

A BIG DYNAMITE CHARGE. New York, February 18. A charge of 40,0001b. of black powder and 12001b. of dynamite used at the Sandstone Company's quarry, Tenino, Washington State, dislodged a million tons of stone. It is believed to be the largest amount of commercially usable stone ever dislodged by a single charge.

PLOT IN KOREA. Tokio, February 18. Baron Inchiko, • tx-president of the Privy Council, who presided at a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association at Seoul, and several others have been arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate Viscount Terauchi, the Governor-General.

THEATRICAL STRDXE ENDED. Madrid, February 18. The strike of the theatres against excessive taxes has been settled.

THE SPANISH FLOODS. Madrid, February 18. A million pesetas have been voted' for the relief of sufferers by the floods.

A BEQUEST TO THE CHURCH. London, February 18. Henry Swaffield, of Sevenoaks, has bequeathed to the Wesleyan Church £150,000.

GERMAN DREADNOUGHT LAUNCHED. Berlin, February 18. The twelfth Dreadnought, Prinz Regent Luitpold, has been launched in the presence of the Kaiser.

SHIP'S GEAR LOST IN A STORM. London,, February 18. The Oceanic on her voyage from New York lost her foremast and wireless installation in an Atlantic storm.

DEPRIVED OF ELECTRIC POWER. Berlin, February 18. A fire at a power station in the Saar Valley has deprived many towns and villages of electricity, and has rendered twenty thousand men idle.

SOCIALISTS AND GBRMAN EMPEROR. Berlin, February 18. Herr Bebel, leader of the Socialists, explains that "Comrade" Scheidemann, the Socialist who ha 3 been elected VicePresident of the Reichstag, will go to Court when -the President. Herr Koempf, is unable to do so, and similarly in the latter's absence Heir Scheidemann will propose the usual sheers for the Emperor in the Reichstag.