GENERAL CABLES.
VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY. Austral ian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received Jan. 4, fl.lr> p.m Rome, Jan. 4. A violent earthquake was experienced at Abruzzi. The damage was specially heavy at Avezzano, Pevchina, and Ajelli. RASPUTIN'S BODY FOUND Received Jan. 4, p.m. 'Petrograd. Jan, Official.—Rasputin's body 'i:i. been found near the Petrovsky bridge, at the mouth of the Neva.
A PLEA FOR A SCIENCE COURSE. Received Jan. 4, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 3 Surgeon-General Sir Alfred Keogh, in a speeeii at the London University, insisted on tlie necessity of teaching classics, history, literature, and modern languages, as well as science, but deplored the fact that Cabinet .Ministers and great administrators were ignorant of the elementary facts of Nature and science. '"I work with them,' 1 he said, "and find, when discussing scientific questions, that it is difficult to get low enough to reach their level." RAILWAY DISASTER IN SCOTLAND. Received Jan. 4, 11.SO p.m. London. Jan. i. Eleven persons were killed and forty injured as the result of a crowded passenger (rain crashing into a light engine at Riahluo station, between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1917, Page 5
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