GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 215, 30 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

COLLAPSE OF A HOUSE. j By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Paris, January 2N. I A house containing several families collapsed, burying most of the inmates. Four bodies have been recovered. H.M.S. TORCH. London, January 28. Mr. Churchill, replying'to Major Archer Shee, said that the places in which < prisoners were confined aboard H.M.S. Torch were well ventilated, but were vised contrary to regulations. BASUTO CHIEF DEAD. Capetown-, January 28. The death has taken place, at Maseru, of Leslie, paramount chief of the Basutos. WILLTAMS TO TSE 1-fUNC. London, January 28. All endeavours to secure a respite for Williams, who shot Inspector Walls have failed, and ho will be hanged to-mor-row, i FOUNDERING OF A LAUNCH, Rangoon, January 28. Through u river launch foundering, seventy persons were drowned. TROUBLE IN FINLAND. St. Petersburg, January 28. Twenty-thvoc officials of the Supreme Court at Vihorg have been sentenced to sixteen months' imprisonment and disqualified for a decade from holding offico. for resisting the law equalising the statutes of Finns and Russians in Finland. The president of the court was acquitted. THE WOOL INDUSTRY. London, January 2S. Mr. C. E. W. Bean read a paper before the Society of Arts on 'the Wool Industry in the British Dominions. Mr. Reeves' presided and the Hon. T. Mac- [ kenzie and Sir W. Jenkins also spoke. I A RECONCILIATION. Berlin, January 28. Newspapers announce a reconciliation between the Kaiser and the Crown ! Prince.