GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A CHINESE MINE FATA!-XY. By Cable—Press Assoeiation-Cipyright Pekin, January 4. An explosion of fire-damp in ■. ciiilierv at lvulja killed lti miners. BANK. SALARIES INCREASED. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received f>, S.:!i) p.ir. London, .bu .wry 5. Several of the leading koii' ::; banks have increased the salaries <A their stall's, as an acknowledgment the increased cost of living and a ,< -■-_• iiitiwii of merit. It j.i stated that lave lioiv increased by 50 per in 20 years. CROWDED NEW Y'./i.-i. Times - Sydney Sun Special Tables. Received 5, S.IIO p.;r. New York, Jeje. .vy ."i. Papers claim that New 1,,« passed London as the mus! ->n-elv- : populated city in , the v,T'lev point out that the population < London is 7,411 ,<W»O, and ui' ! .;.M.eei New York 5,47<i,!)0(i, but the area t' the former is 703 square miles, uniPci the latter 320 square miles. CLERGYMAN'S PECULIAR Received 3, !U0 pi.-:. Sydney. ,la:.-.ary The Rev. Mr. \Venboru. Angliean minister at Dcniliquin. whs r««, suffering from pneumonia, escapee ; iirongli a window from a private l:ortf'-ial during the absence of bis nurse. budy wa.s found in the Edward

TTTV, TASMAX'S MTSK'Ar. Vn-ceived In.DO p.ic. Svtlnev. j. The OlHcli mail T;:-maii. , w?iieli wont ashore at I'lami/, • ■ T'ay «tt<l was afterwards refloated,-1*1!. Thursday Island for Java on Sunday. T> dauiajie to tlii' vessel was nol so KHitut as was anticipated, and temporary were effected. MADAMK AlKl.llA'S rLANS'. liCCftivcd ]()..'! op ::i. Sydney. .T.-.fnarv S. i 'Madame Mell>-,i will retnrn 1.-, Australasia, probsiMy in April. A!!,(.- 've-tiiv.' fur a few months, slip may s:i\v c<mcerts before resuming her w.-.v.»"!iien(« at Coveiit fiiii^len. A DESI'TCRATK PRISONER, Received j. 10.30 Melbourne, X- Mary .1. j A prisoner mimed Clarke e"-.ipi-.d from the ci*ty lock-up a fortnight < _o. Detectives discovered tliat hi. 'na.l arranged to be married oh S.iiurdav night. Witb tflie ]■ fospoetiv--. Vide lliey liid in tlie house. and whee •■'i.uke arrived there wi>« n desperat-- *trnj!«li>. Clarke knocked down tin- iciectives. f-lippcd out of 'his coat. ••«<! a,';aiii escaped. A ( iT.\r:(;i: or liW.eived !>. III.HO 7-. Sydney. ".•oiuirv Aliek Marnier. aped -11. a u.WhI man. has been charged with lmvi..y v irdiwl Patrick Sullivan. wlio died fr. « 'in-jnl.al willi a. fractured skull. A';..'..■■■■ allege* (hilt he struck Sullivan in ii-i.'-di-i'enee. He was remanded.