GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3409, 28 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

INDIAN RULER DEAD

[tjnitbd PRESS ASSOCIATION COPTBIOHT] DELHI, Dec. 26. The Maharajah of Nabha (Sir Hira . Singh) is dead. FATAL TRAM ACCIDENT. OTTAWA, Dec. 26. A Toronto street car, crowded with church-goers, ran off the line at a curve, and was upset. One woman was killed and several persons were injurdc. A number of passengers fell through the windows, and were penned .-Underneath the side of the car. The !‘motorman has been arrested pending 'an investigation. BLIZZARD ON 'THE PRAIRIES. OTTAWA, Deo. 26. Reports from Winnipeg state that a blizzard is raging in the prairies, and telegraph communication with many districts has been cut off. TROLLEY CAR LEAPS BRIDGE. NEW YORK. Dec. 26. A trolley car with 35 passengers leaped over a. bridge near Pottsville into the river, where the water was' six feet deep. /j Nobody was killed, but many were injured. PRINCE SMOKES TOO MUCH. BERLIN, Dee. 26. It is understood that the condition of t'h© Crown Prince’s throat is due to excessive cigarette smoking. PERSIANS ATTACK HILL TRIBE. LONDON, Dec. 26. Advices from Shiraz state that Persian troops guarding Kashjarroad and Kazerun attacked a number of Indian Sowars, killing one. A punitive party afterwarsd set out to the hills. A WOMAN'S HEROIC ACTION. LONDON, Dec. 26. At a fire at Bethnal Green, a woman was killed by jumping with a hild in each arm from a height of 60 feet. The children were unhurt. DISEASED PORK. \ Twenty cases of suspected ptomaine poisoning occurred after a public dinner at Cardiff, through eating- pork. One victim developed acute typhoid. ENGLISH SHIPBUILDING. * Two hundred- and ninety vessels, with a tonnage of 1,074,019, were launched at North-east Coast building yards in 1911, establishing a Tecord. The output of Clyde yards was 403 vessels, which was also a record.CONVERTIBLE - CRUISERSTEAMERS. PARIS. Dec. 26. The Government proposed, in the Chamber of Deputies, a subsidy of twenty million pounds sterling, spread over 25 years, to the Messageries Maritime Co! and Societe Detudes de Navigation for mail and other services in tlie Far East. Australia, East Africa, Brazil, and River Plate. The bulk will be devoted to the construction of nineteen-knot steamers, convertible into auxiliary cruisers. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. Le Temps states Spain’s counter proposals were impracticable, and France cannot accept co-existence in two protectorates in Morocco. A TRAIN DERAILED. Dec. 26. A train was derailed- at Ch-iasso. Four passengers were killed and fifteen injured, several mortally. . A seventy-mile gale uprooted 18,000 trees in Neuchatel forests. A SKI PARTY MEET DISASTER. An avalanche at Eigergletsoher overtook a Grindelwald ski party, killing three. SPANIARDS ATTACKED. MADRID, Dec. 26. Natives near Mellila attacked the Spaniards, and there was severe fighting. Nine Spaniards were killed and thirty-eight wounded. The natives lost -heavily. Several thousand tribesmen attacked Tauriatzag on Saturday night, and were repulsed and retreated. On Sunday they were again repulsed. Seventeen 'Spaniards, including five officers, were killed’ and forty wounded. THE KING’S GREETINGS. CALCUTTA, Dec. 26. Tire troops engaged ■ in the Abor expedition' were delighted at the King’s Christmas greetings, wishing them a speedy success. AUSTRIAN INTEREST IN TRIPOLI. VIENNA. Dec. 25. The Emperor, who was recently ill, is evincing a thorough knowledge of events in Tripoli. He gave an audience of five and a half hours to an Austrian officer from the seat of war. A FITTING END. : ROME, Dec. 25. Baron Vincent Paterno, who murdered the Countess Trigona on March \3, after the latter had ceased to have , relations with. him, has been sent to an asylum. “MILITARY DEBAUCHEES.” OTTAWA. Dec. 23. . Mr Bourassa, the leader of the Nationalists, attacked Colonel Hughes on the ground of the latter’s advocacy of military training. Mr Bourassa declared that Mr Hughes invited. 25,000 schoolboys to become debauchers and play the fool at the State’s expense. Mr Hughes replied good humoredly that if Mr Bourassa had received military training in his youth he , would be a truly great man, and it would afford him great pleasure to gazette Mr Bourassa as major .in command of a I squadron of mounted rifles or hussars. TRAWLER FOUNDERS. (Received Dec. 27, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 27. 'Hie Grimsby trawler Persian foundered in-the North Sea with a crew of nine. TRAMS SUSPENDED. The electric tramwn- system in tlie Llanelly district was suspended owing to -a- strike for recognition- of the union. COLLIERY FIRE. The fire, in- the tunnel af the colliery at Nuneaton idled fourteen hundred miners, -i An explosion followed the apparently successful efforts to extinguish the fire, after the fire brigade had withdrawn.