CABLE NEWS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2286, 26 February 1912, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

London, Feb. 24. The Prime Minister conferred with coal mine owners and afterwards saw the King who is desirous of being kept informed about the threatened strike of coal miners. Most of the manufacturers in potteries employing 40,000 men, the leading ironmasters in South Staffordshire and Coates cotton spinners employing 10,000 have notified there will be a stoppage in the event of a coal strike. A German who proves to be a naturalised Britisher was arrested on a charge of espionage on board the Foxhound, where he had served eight years, He was discovered making notes in cipher. Mexican rebels are making headway in the San Pedr district. It is Baid 200 rebels were killed when fighting after an ambush. The mystery connected with the death of eight babies at Brooklyn infant hospital, New York, has been solved, a kitchen woman having confessed to plaoing oxalic acid in the milk bottles. Melbourne, Feb. 24. The first practical step has been taken for the constructing of the transcotinental railway. The Federal Government is calling for tenders for 185,000 tons of steel rails. Mr O'Malley claims it as the biggest railway job in the world. It will cover 1063 miles and it will be constructed by day labor employing eighteen hundred men. Brisbane, Feb. 24. The Government have completed negotiations for the supply of a large quantity of coal from Japan.