GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 211, 5 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

ITALIAN INSURANCE BILL. •y Qabl»~Preiw Association—Copyright. Rome, March 3. The Chamber has adopted the Insurance Bill, "which creates life insurance a State monopoly, the revenue of which is to be utilised for old age and invalidity pensions for workmen. FATAL FALL OF ROCK. Capetown, March 3. By the fall of rock at the Simmer and Oack mine at Johannesburg, six natives and one white man were killed. SHIPBUILDERS' STRIKE. Berlin, March 3. Six thousand shipbuilders at the Schichau yards at Danzig and Elbing have struck. THE EX-SHAH OF PERSIA. Teheran, March 3. . The ex-Shah left for Baku aboard a, Russian ship. The Government has | granted him a yearly pension of 75,000 I tomans (1 toman is 9s sd). IRON AND STEEL COMBINE. London, March 3. Thirteen firms have amalgamated under the title of the Scottish Iron and I Steel Company, with a capital of £1,000,000. THE TAXI-CAB ROBBERY. New York, March 3. Arbano, who confessed to implication in the taxicab robbery, declared that he robbed the robbers, who stole £SOOO from bank messengers. Arbano, entering the saloon where the loot was being divided, bluffed a man into giving him £2OOO. As he was departing, two other men held him up and compelled him to part with some of the booty. He then fled to Havana, where women relieved him of the balance. DISASTROUS FIRE AT RANGOON. Rangoon, March 3. A fire destroyed eight sawmills and i 5 timber depots, the damage amounting to £66,000. A CRUISER'S MOVEMENTS. Malta, March 8. The cruiser Barham has left here. It is understood her destination is Crete.

REBELLIOUS TRIBESMEN ROUTED. Paris, March 3. A Frendi column routed rebellious tribesmen at Suk-cl-Arba (Persia), inflicting severe loss. The French lost six killed and thirty wounded. A THIRTY-KNOT CRUISER. London, March 3. A battleship cruiser of the Lion type is shortly to be laid down at Glasgow. It will have 87,000 horse power, and will be able to steam at the rate of thirty knots. She will be the most powerful vessel in the world. "THE FRIENDS OF DEATH." St. Petersburg, March 3. Newspapers give details of the meeting of the suicide club, called "The Friends of Death." There, is an extensive membership, comprising old and young people of both sexes. Nine members proposed a dramatic death. They were to dine together in a fashionable restaurant, and drink cyanide of potassium in glasses of champagne.