GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 209, 23 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TROUBLE IN MEXICO. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Washington. January 21. Further reports of the murder of American ranchers in Mexico has caused the despatch of another cruiser to Aeapulco. The rebels carried oil' foreign women. A British warship is ready to .remove the Britishers.

AN ACTIVE VOLCANO. Mexico City, January 21. An eruption at Colima is causing terror among the inhabitants, who, are fleeing. Enormous losses of stock are been caused, and towns are imperilled.

A MOTOR FATALITY. London, January 21. A motor bus has killed a policeman who was regulating the traffic. This has accentuated the outcry regarding motor fatalities, by which 310 persons have heen killed in ten months, as against 140 by other vehicles.

RUSSIAN METHODS. St. Petersburg. January 21. The Czar declined to confirm the Council of Empire's recommendation to prosecute KurlofT, Spividoviteh, Verigin and Kuijaliko, oilicials charged with negligence which led to M. Stolvpin's death, and the proceedings have therefore been abandoned.

THE SHACKLETOX CHARGES. London, January 21. Francis Shackletou, brother of the explorer, is also being, charged with misappropriating £SOOO belonging to Lord Ronald Gower. who late in 1010 became one of the guarantors of Sliackleton's £40.000 overdraft at the bank, and also held six thousands shaws iin, a company with which Shackletou was associated. The prosecution stated that defendant knew the shares were worthless.

AN EDITOR FINED. London, .January 21.' Dewerd Fenton, an editor, lias been fined £9O for utilising the Post Office to circulate sporting items containing indecent articles.

THE INSURANCE ACT. London, January 21. The doctors' panels in London have been substantially increased.

INDEPENDENCE OF TIBET. St. Petersburg, January 21. Mongolia has agreed to recognise the Dalai Llama as the ruler of independent Tibet and arrange an alliance for mutual trade interests.