GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 187, 27 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A FATAL FIRE. By Coble—Prass Association—Copyright. London, Detember 25. Alfred Scope and his wife and three children were incinerated in a tenement fire at Islington. The other occupants had narrow escapes, but were rescued by the brigade. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. New York, December 25. The steamer Merrin collided in Lower Delaware Bav with the Iceanic, bound for Narvik. * Both were badly damaged, but were able to return to port. One' hundred and fifty-five passengers were aboard the Merrin. THE TASMAN SEA CABLE. Sydney, December 25. The Eastern Extension Company's cable steamer Patrol has returned. She completed repairs to the cables across the Tasman Sea. FIRE m A FLOUR MILL. Sydney, Decemher 25. Chicken's flour mills at Home Lush •were gutted by fire. A large quantity of flour and wheat was destroyed, and machinery ruined. The damage is estimated at £16,-000. Insurances, in the Manchester Union, amount to 10.300.

FROLICSOME BROKERS. .Sew York, December 25. Gales are raging on the eastern coasts and scores of vessels have beeu compelled to run for refuge. The blizzard struck New York, and the Wall street brokers engaged in a snow fight on the floor of the exchanges. Hundreds of the wealthiest members were engaged, and finally a huge snow man was /built. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. Capetown, December 25. A conference, attended by Mr. Fischer, General Hertzog and leading Free Staters, at Bloemfontoin, agreed not to split the Ministerial party. DISASTROUS GALES. London, December 25. There have been disastrous gales in many distiicts. A factory chimney collapsed at Lincoln, and crashed through a smithy, injuring four persons. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Washington. December 25. A special session of Congress will be held in March to revise the tariffs downwards. A LTNER ASnORE. New York, December 25. The liner Turrialba went ashore in a blinding snowstorm at New Jersey. Sixty passengers left in the lifeboats and were subsequently rescued.