GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 277, 15 April 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A MISSING BANKER. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 14, 5.5 p.m. New York, April 13. Newspapers report the disappearance of an official of a great city bank, which is believed to be the Bank of England. South American, Algoma, and Hudson Bay bonds, valued at £3500, are missing, and it is rumored that other securities are missing, the loss running into five figures. SINKING A BARGE. London, April 13. A barge sank at Sheerness, and live persons were drowned. TRAINS IN COLLISION. Brussels, April 13. A workmen's train collided with the Basle-to-Ostend express at Louzeo. Twelve were seriously injured. PIGEON-SHOOTING. Paris, April 13. The President has abolished shoots at Rambouillet, for humanitarian reasons. A BOMB EXPLOSION. Lisbon, April 13. Bombs exploded in a house and wounded the maker. The latter's parents have been arrested. Several half-finished bombs have been seized. THE ARCHIMEDEAN LEVER. London, April 13. ! Lord Rosebery, in a speech at the Press Club, attributed the apathy of the public on great questions to the very perfection of journalism in chronicling the world's every event. He trusted that on critical occasions the newspapers would minimise and not magnify the issuo, and always do their utmost 'to avert the calamity of war. AN AUSTRIAN LOAN. Vienna, April 13. Austria is contracting a State railway loan of 122,000,000 marks from German banks. OVER-TAXED GERMANS. Berlin, April 13. The Kollnische draws attention to a remarkable exodus from the capital to Switzerland, which is attributed largely to the prospective war levy on property. A DESERTING FIREMAN. London, April 13. James Kelly, fireman, for deserting the steamer Tropic at Sydney, was ordered to forfeit £97 10s, wages due, and also to pay the White Star Company £5 for loss in engaging a substitute. | A CONVICT~RISING. New York, April 13. Convicts at Lansing, Kansas, fired the prison buildings in an endeavor to escape. Women criminal lunatics were frantic at the sight, and fought the warders. They were forcibly dragged out of the cells and removed elsewhere. Six hundred convicts acted as volunteer firemen. Many were' injured. The prison war partially destroyed. WAR AGAINST OVERTIME. London, April 13. The Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association has voted for a fighting policy against systematic overtime, apart from emergency overtime. The Ansocial.'or accused officials of seeking to kili the agitation for a seven-hour day. THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE. London, April 13. The battered hat and pocketbook of the missing millionaire, Martin, have been found on • the Thames Embankment.