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GENERAL CABLES.

SERIOUS BOILER EXPLOSION. By Telegraph.--Press Assn.—Copyright. Havana (Cuba), Dec. 13. A hundred casualties and damage estimated at a million dollars were caused at the central Azucardera sugar mill, when two boilers exploded under test. AN AMERICAN DONNYBROOK. New York, December 14. A telegram from Eldorado, Arkansas, says that gamblers and other underworld characters renewed the battle with citizens which began op November 29. Five were shot and several knifed jn a free for all fight in wh jeh negroes joined whisky runners and others in attacking the whites, The latter were finally victorious putting in goal a number of the lawless element. BY-ELECTION IN ENGLAND. London, December 14. The South Portsmouth by-election resulted: Mr. Leslie Wilson (.Secretary to the Treasury), 14,301; Tho-mas, 8434. Mr. Wilson failed to secure a seat at the general election. MILITARY REPORT WITHHELD. London, December 13. Tn the House of Lords, Lord Salisbury, replying to Lord .Sydenham, declined to table Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson’s memorandum on the military situation in Asia Minor. AMERICAN RAILWAY COLLISION. New York, December 14. At Houston, Texa«, ten people were killed and 30 injured through a collision between a passenger train and a switch engine. Escaping steam poured through the coach windows and scalded a number of passengers to death. PROHIBITION IN TURKEY. Angora, December 14. The Government has prohibited the importation of spirituous liquor in both Asiatic and European Turkey. THE CALIPH’S BEARD. .. , -* Constantinople. December 14. Prayers tha x t the Caliph’s beard may grow luxuriantly are being offered in the mosques to-day, the Caliph lias started a beard to conform with the religious- tradition. The Angora Government is allowing the Caliph £4500 per month.

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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1922, Page 5

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GENERAL CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES. Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1922, Page 5

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