GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 90, 2 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A MILITARY ADVISKII. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, August 30, General Bressant Desmaillet lias been appointed military adviser to China. STAT]'] PARCELS POST. New York, August ,'lO. The United States will inaugurate, 'a State parcels post system oil January 1. A million miles of rural delivery will be covered. Tlu; private express companies, which have hitherto been handling this business, will be hard hit. A STEAMSHIP CENTENARY. London, August 30. The centenary of the lirst steamship, the Cornet, has been celebrated at Glasgow with an imposing maritime pageant of warships and merchantmen. A DYNAMITE OUTRAGE. Ottawa,' August 30. Dynamitards attempted to destroy the house of an Austrian, named Dragin, at Vancouver. They blew up a portion, the thirteen inmates narrowly escaping | death. Dragin refuses to give an ex- I planation, but the police believe there I is a feud of a personal nature. They H have found no clue to the perpetrators. A RAILWAY COLLISION. New York, August 30. At Pittsburg four persons were killed and seven injured through a passenger train colliding with and wrecking a train employed in repairing the track, following the derailment of a number of freight waggons. A misunderstanding of orders was responsbile for the accident. The passengers all escaped, although sis coaches were derailed. COLLIERY WORKINGS FLOODED. London, August 30. An inrush of water from some old workings Hooded a colliery at Aberdare. Three hundred men were below, and tnere were some narrow and sensational escapes. LOOTING A CUSTOM-HOUSE. Hong Kong, August 30. Two European Customs officers were hound by maurauders in the Customhouse at Lofong, Sanicliun. The Cus-tom-house was looted of arms and ajnI munition.