GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 76, 16 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A BOILER EXPLOSION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. | Paris, August 1-1. A boiler explosion occurred on the battleship Verite at Toulon. A number of the crew, panic-stricken, swain ashore. Similar scenes were witnessed on the llepuli'lique, which was anchored near by. The captain of the Verite sounded the recall, and severely reprimanded the crew. A FATAL MISTAKE. New York, August 14. At Evansville, Indiana, a business man named Harvey Troyer, awakened in the night time by his wife's cry of burglars, fatally stabbed her by mistake in the dark with a butcher's knife, and later discovered there was no burglar. A BIG ORDER. London, August 14. The Bishop of the Falkland Islands has collected £OISO for his diocese. Ho declares he will resign unless the public subscribes £IOO,OOO. ICE IN THE ATLANTIC. London, August 14. Liners report an exceptional amount of ice in the Atlantic. One encountered a hundred large bergs, and another eighty miles of floes. The companies are abandoning the Northern track. GENERAL BOTHA HONORED. London, August 14. It is officially announced that the King has appointed General Botha an honorary general in the British Army. | A NEW NAVAL DOCK. | London, August 14. [ The Admiralty's new floating dock has been launched at Birkenhead. It can lift a 32,000 ton battleship. COLLAPSE OF A HOUSE. St. Petersburg, August 14. Consequent on heavy rains, a house |at Kiell collapsed, fifteen persons being killed and twenty-nine seriously injured. i i ■