GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 21 February 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PRINCE WIED. By Oable—Press Association —Copyright Received 20, C.5 p.m. Constantinople, February 20, Three thousand Mussulmen peasants, mostly armed, have arrived at Durazzo to act as bodyguard to Prince Wied. The authorities are alarmed. PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES. Received 20. fi.s p.m. London, February -0. In reply to a question, Mr. Montague stated that eight members of Parliament had declined io receive their salaries. OERMAN CKXSORKHIP. ; Received 20, 0.5 p.m. Berlin, February 20. The Hamburg offices of the' Hamburger Echo arc being searched by the police to discover the name of the autlior of a novel dealing with the life of working men. It is alleged to contain insulting and contemptuous references to the Officers' Corps and the Prussian War Minuter. Steps are being taken to prosecute the author and editor. RAIDERS IX INDIA. Received 20,-10.30 p.m. Calcutta. Fcbrtmry 20. A large body of raiders crossed the frontier on Monday and attached Atioekbridgc Blockhouse. Armed police, after several hours' lighting, drove off the raiders, with few casualties. The raiders on Tuesday attacked the Royal Sussex battalion whilst manoeuvring at Peshawar, hut the re=ult of the encounter is not known. DFNEDIX CITY LOAN". Received 20, 10.30 p.m. London. February 20. The prospectus is issued of tlie City of Dunedin YVaipori Falls Electric Power loan in 1.10,000 debentures at four-and-a-half per cent., reputable in IMI. DISASTROUS SUBSIDENCE. Received 20, 10.30 p.m. London, February 20. The subsidence of a coal mine at-. Cradley Heath caused SO yards of the main street to sink five feet. ' Many buildings were wrecked, and tile gas' and water mains were broken. The damage is estimated at .120,000. EXPEDITION' WRECKED. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. Received 20. 1i.5 p.m. Christiana, February 20. Advices received from Leden. leader of the Xiirwegian expedition to Northern Canada to study the entlmographie problems among the eskimos, including their musical capacities, state that the expedition was wrecked in Hudson's Bay. and the members were suffering great privations ' KIKI'VC COXI'EIIEXOE. Halifax. February 20. The English Church L'nion gravely doubted whether the proposed Federation suggested at. Kikuvu would not tend to develop an undenominational sect, rather than an ideal native church. i A number of Mohammedans in London have, prole-ted in the. Press auainst the hostility d ; -plaved to the Kikuvtt ■> Conference. ;1 t , SAX HiAXCISio EXPOSITION. I- . Received 20. lO.lll) p.m. London, Febmarv 2(1. Sir A. ('.man Doyle and manv wellknown author- have petitioned Mr. Asqtiitli to reconsider his decision not to participate in the San Francisco Exhibition. Three hundred members of the House id Commons will shortly memorialise Mr. Asipiitli on similar' lines. BIRD LIFE PROTECTION. Received 20, 0.5 p.m. London, February 20. Mr, Hobhouse has introduced a Bill prohibiting the importation of plumage and skins of wild birds.