GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 227, 13 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A CASE OF SMALLPOX. Ey Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 12. 0.50 p.m. Port Darwin, February 12. • The -trainer Eastern, from China, has arrived with one of the firemen suffering from smallpox. BLOWN Tf) PIECES. Brisbane. February 12. The cnquiiy into the Steeker inci.lent showed 'that it was caused by a parcel of detonators and dynamite in a waggonette. [A Brisbane cablegram, dated February 5. says: August Steeker. a travelling photographer, while camped near Xoogoora. was blown to fragments. It is supposed the cause was accidental.] TIIK SUBSIDIARY COXFERBXCE. Received 13. 12.50 a.m. London, February 12. Mr. H. Samuel announces that his reply to the Commonwealth request for a subsidiary naval conference was despatched last week. ARMOR PLATE. London, February 12. The Admiralty is testing a Sheffield invention for increasing the resistance of armored plate while reducing the weight by 15 per cent. WRECK OF A STEAMER. London. February 12. The Spanish steamer Pauline has been wrecked at Wigtownshire. The captain and thirteen men arc missing. AX ARAB RTSIXO. Tripoli. February 12. The independent Arab Government in the Tripnlitan hinterland has begun hostilities against the Italians with 4000 well-equipped soldiers. Two thousand have arrived before Zuaraad Jilat.