GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 217, 1 February 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ENTERPRISING PRISONERS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Madrid, January 30. Eighty prisoners in the fortress at Monsants bored a tunnel through into a field. Soldiers awaited their exit, and captured them, wounding some. KING LEOPOLD'S ESTATE. Brussels, January 30. Princess Clementine lias accepted the Government's offer of £250,000, but Princesses Louise and Stephanie are claiming £2,750,000 from King Leopold's estate. OIL OX TROUBLED WATERS. London, January 30.

The steamer Margaretha has arrived at Plymouth. She encountered tremendous seas, and everything moveable was swept overboard. There was ten feet of water in the engine-room. The captain pumped thousands of tons of oil from the cargo overboard during the height of the storm, and this proved successful. MR. ALLEN AT HOME. London, January 30. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, Sir H. Just, Sir Joseph Ward, and Messrs. Mason, Chappie and Fell, members of Parliament, welcomed Mr. James Allen at Charing Cross. Mr. Allen is much benefited by his voyage. THE LONDONDERRY ELECTION. I London, January 30. In the Londonderry by-election campaign, Lady Abercorn actively canvassed the whole town. Those voting include all the lame and half-blind obtainable, and some voters have come specially from America. INFANTRY UNIFORMS. London, January 30. The Pall Mall Gazette states it is rumored that in order to economise, the War Office is considering the substitution of grey or khaki for scarlet as the only wear for infantry except the Guards. j THE RAILWAY AGREEMENT. London, January 30. The Board of Trade declares that the 'Midland Railway violated the 1911' agreement in only one out of twenty alleged victimisations. AN OVERDUE VESSEL. London, January 30. It is believed that the grain steamer Whittingham, bound from Baltimore to Rotterdam, has been lost in the i Atlantic during the recent storms, and ] it has been posted as overdue.

A JACOBITE FESTIVAL. London, January 30. The statue of King Charles at Charing Cross was decked with wreaths on the anniversary of his execution. ' A GOLD ROBBERY. Lisbon, January 30. A box containing £4OOO, part of a consignment of £500,000, was stolen from the Hamburg-American liner Capbianco between Rio de Janiero and Vitno. HONOR FOR. MR. ASQUITH. London, January 30. Mr. Asquitli was presented with the freedom of the City of Dundee. The suffragettes created a pandemonium, but the police ejected them.