GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 159, 22 November 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE JAMAICAN HURRICANE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 21, 10.50 p.m. Kingston, November 21. The tidal wave wiped out the town of Lucea and swept a quarter of a mile inland, wrecking houses. The roads and telegraphs are still interrupted.

AMERICAN POLITICS. Washington, November 21. Mr. Bryan has been offered the Secretary of Statcship portfolio. THE BUTCHERS' STRIKE. Sydney, November 21. Seventy-three Globe Island slaughtermen were fined £5, and one was fined for participating in the strike. All those employed by the Carcase Butchers' Association slaughtering mutton and beef have been proceeding as usual. In the ease of other butchering firms, the men now declare that they will be working to-morrow, but not for the Carcase Butchers' Association.

FIRE IN A FACTORY. Sydney, November 21. The Australian Lithyte Factory at Annandale and its contents have 'been destroyed by fire. The damage is £ 10,000. A large quantity of oil drums exploded. In the fusillade the public school adjoining escaped, but the children were much alarmed by the explosions, and wero sent home. 'Rush ton, an employee at the factory, was severely burned before he escaped. ' THE DIVORCE COMMISSION. Received 22, 12.50 a.m. London, November 21. The Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing the Upper House convocation, commended the divorce minority's report. It was a mistake to regard the' report as what the church wanted. It was what; the nation needed.

ENGLISH CHURCH UNION. Received 22, 12.0f) a.m. London, November 21. Lord Halifax, presiding at the Ens-dish Church Union, thanked God for the' Balkan Allies' success, securing for Christians what diplomacy was too feeble or indifferent to effect. Referring to the Divorce Commission, he sai.i that it was the positive duty of the church to protect the morality of the State by the abolition of divorce. CHARGE OP CRUELTY. London, November 21. John Crozier, ex-High' Sheriff of Fermanagh, and his wife, who is the stepmother, have been committed for'trial for manslaughter, causing the death of a son of seventeen through innutritious food. They are also charged with illtreating two j-ounger children.

THE MYSTERIOUS AIRSHIP. London, November 21. Count Zeppelin, in a letter to the newspapers, states that his airships did not approach the English coast.

THE RUBBER OUTRAGES. London, November 21. The British directors state that they did not know of the Putumayo cruelties until 11)09. For nine months thereafter they maintained the. stories to be untrue. THE LAND TAN. London, November 21. Mr. Lloyd George, replying to Mr. Outhwaite, said that twenty-one raillions' worth of land had been' cut up in Australia in the year ending June 30, 1011, as a result of the land tax, while the area under cultivation had increased by over two million acres, eighteen months after the tax was first levied. GERMANY'S NAVY. Berlin, November 21. The 1913 Estimates provide for two battleships, one armored cruiser, two small cruisers, and a torpedo flotilla. Two and' a half million marks have been assigned for an air service.

THE TREACiTEROU.S TTOOGLEY. Calcutta, November 21. By a boating accident on the Hooglcy seven Europeans and forty natives were drowned.