GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 181, 18 December 1912, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SICILY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. mo, Decern oe-r Hi. Through a signalman's mistake the Catania-Messina express daShed into a goods train. Ten persons were killed and fifteen injured. Soveral coaches were wrecked. MURDER OF BRITISH OFFICER. Teheran, December Hi. The Government has expressed grief at the death of Captain lickford, and promised adequate reparation. THE GRAY-ROBERTS CASE. London, December 16. In the billiard case, George Oay's appeal WHS dismissed without Roberts' counsel being called. THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE iCT. London, Docember 10. Mr. Keir Ilardie, in a letter to the Daily News, asks for subscriptions to fight the compulsory clauses in the Australian Defence Act. PARTIAL IMPACT. London, December 18. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a long letter from Professor Bickerton justifying his theory of partial impact as a means of creating new stars. THE CHINESE LOAN. London, December 16. At a conference of the financial group, the Chinese proposals for a £25,000,000 loan secured by the re-organised salt gabelle were approved THE TRANSVAAL INDIANS. Bombay, December 16. Mr. Gokhale states that the situation cf the Indians in the Transvaal is worse since the overthrow of the Boers, while Natal's indenture system is almost slavery. As long as Europeans ! feared Indian invasion there was no I chance of reasonable conditions. He favored the restriction of immigration, end insisted on the rights of the Indians already there. A WHEAT FIRE, j Sydney, December 17. A fire at Canowindra destroyed five | hundred acres of standing wheat. The damage amounted to £3OOO. WESTRALTAN LOAN. ] Perth, December 17. The Government is floating a £350,- \ 000 local 4 per cent loan at 97. j