GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 207, 29 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A STEAMER FOUI^ERS. *" I By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Brussels, February 27. The steamer Deliverance foundered in the Kemango river. Thirty-two were drowned. EMIGRANTS ON THE BELGIC. London, February 27. Mr. Robertson, Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, replying to a question by Mr. Alden, Liberal member for Tottenham, regarding the emigrants on the Belgic, said that all the requirements of the Shipping Acts had been complied with. PROCEEDS OF ROBBERY RECOVERED. New York, February 27. Part of £SOOO stolen from a messenger in a taxi-cab has been recovered at Boston. Several arrests have been made, including two Italians. GREAT SWISS FRAUDS. Geneva, February 27. A State Councillor, named Eugene Berlie, has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for frauds involving £llO,000, by which many persons were ruined and two went mad. THE CANADIAN PROVINCES. Ottawa, February 27. , Resolutions introduced in the Federal Parliament propose adding Ungava to the Quebec province, this making Quebec the largest province in the Dominion, instead of British Columbia. Ontario gets a large slice of Keewatin, and Manitoba has already secured an extension of boundaries. DESTRUCTION OF QUEBEC BRIDGE. Ottawa, February 27. The police authorities are conducting exhaustive investigations into the destruction of the Quebec bridge in 1907, the theory being that labor agitators used dynamite similar to that of the McNamara's crime at' Los Angeles. The contractors for the bridge were the Phoenix Bridge Company, which concern suffered the heaviest from the labor outrages. A DOUBLE MURDER. New York, February 27. The bodies of Mrs. Brown and John Aldern were found on the roadside at Tacoma, the victims having apparently been battered to death by a club. The husband Brown confessed murder in the second degree. He stated that he quarrelled "with his wife, and lay in wait for her and Aldern. He struck them down; liis wife rose, and he pursued her, killing her with a blow on the head.