GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 289, 3 June 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE ANDALUSIAN STRIKE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Madrid, May 31. A compromise has been arranged in connection with the Andalusian strikn on the basis of payments equal to those Under the British Provident Fund into the savings bank. The company has accepted the scheme. A MOTORING RECORD. New York, May 31. Joe Dawson's National car won the 500 mile automobile race at Indianopolis in 6 hours 21 minutes 6 seconds—a world's record. FOREST FIRES. | St. John, May 31. I Fires have swept many villages, destroying railway and telegraph communication. Fifteen hundred persons are homeless and a thousand square miles of country have been burnt. Several - ilumber mills have been destroyed. THE CHINESE LOAN. London, May 31. The Westminster Gazette says that Austria, Italy and Belgium demand <to participate in the Chinese loan on lines recognising their international position towards China. The Powers strongly oppose this demand. Meanwhile the negotiations are at a deadlock. LOST AT SEA. London, May 31. The ship Queen Victoria, bound from Tocopilla, Chili, for the United Kingdom, with a crew of twenty-four, is supposed to have foundered after collision with an iceberg north-west of Cape Horn. Beale, the mate, and Talbert, a member of the crew, were Australians.