GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 10 June 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH TRADE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. T London, June 7. Imports into the United Kingdom for tPoitS?' 0 " 6 ' 1 £1 > 198 .540, exports &1,<217,047, and re-exports £1,990,212. A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. • rm. • , Vienna. June 7. -Ue explosion of 7,400,000 pounds of powder near the town caused thirty deaths. Those killed were mostly sol- ■ j mi ere Were also one hundred injured. The explosion was due to the ignition of a petrol motor on an amj munition waggon.

KINO EDWARD'S BIOGRAPHY. -pi. m , , London, June 7. lne lelegraph denounces Sir Sidney Lees gaucherie and tactlessness in his article on King Edward, particularly in that portion dealing with Kin<r EdWard's action in Home politics, and objects to painful and unnecessary revelations concerning living statesmen. THE CUBAN REVOLT. New York, June 7. Preparations have been made to dispatch five thousand American troops to Cuba, President Gomez has issued a proclamation calling on Cuban people to organise and face the national peril. WAR FROM THE AIR. . T , .. Rome, June 7. An Italian dirigible at Benghaz J.he fight rages before the National Turkish camp. THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. tu * l, Nevv York > June 7. Ine fight ranges before the National ?,r 0m m lUee over 96 con testant votes. Mr. Taft requires 204 out of 226 conIw m s i of which an anal JS>s reveals that Taft is assured of 120 and Roosevelt 10. ANOTHER EXPLOSION. Vienna. June 7. By an explosion of melinite at Wollersdorf ammunition factory, Wieneraneustadt, one building was demolished. The explosion was heard forty miles away. Windows were shattered twentyfive miles distant. Two thousand were employed in adjoining buildings. Latest reports minimise the death-roll.

SNOWSTORMS IN MONGOLIA. _ v St- Peters burg, June 7. lhere have been severe snowstorms m Mongolia. Twenty thousand horses nave perished.