GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 97, 10 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ATTEMPTED TRAIN ROBBERY. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright.. Stockholm, .September 8. Four masked men attempted to rob the mail train, to Umca. The [sorter, after a desperate struggle, .succeeded in locking the door of the compartment containing a large sum in cash. The assailants escaped when the train slowed down. FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. Paris, September 8. A motor-car collided with a tram at Aries. The wife and a 'relative of Prof. Joubert, of Marseilles, were killed. Three others were seriously injured., BRITISH DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS. London, September 8. Tile Development Commissioners propose to spend, before l'Jlfi, £2,000,000 on agricultural and fisheries j'e-earch, improvement of live stock, atiorestatioii, and the cultivation of tobacco, flax and 'hemp. A NARROW ESCAPE. St. Petersburg, September 8. Two trains from Moscow and St. .Petersburg, with several Grand Dukes and a Minister on board, narrowly escaped coming into collision at Fili. The diversion of one on to a siding saved a catastrophe, but the engines and carriages were damaged. BUSH NURSING. | London, September 8. There were a hundred applicants for tko Victorian bush, nursing positions, including many highly skilled women. Two have already been engaged. OIL FUEL. London, September 8. The Admiralty has placed in Scotland an order for 200,000 tons of oil fuel. A BOOKMAKER'S ESTATE. London, September 8. The estate of Charles Williams, bookmaker at Glmrdi-Stretton, lias been proved at £163,814. CONTINENTAL POLITICS. Berlin, September 8. Admiral Braising, a well-known retired office]' and writer on political and naval questions, addressing the PanGorman League on the strategical situation in the Mediterranean, said that one of Germany's lirM objects, in the event of war with Britain, must be tlie, interception of British, food supplies. With 'that end in view a land attack oil Egypt must be undertaken, * which would only be possible by the I close co-operation of Austria and Italy. ] UNION PARLIAMENT Bi T TLDINfiP. I Pretoria, September 8. ; The Union Government has petitions! itlie King and Queen to visit South Africa and open the Union Parliament t Buildings in 1014.