OUR SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 5

OUR SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS

Jtimes-sydne* sun special cables.] MAULED BY A LION. A FATAL ENCOUNTER. Received this day at 8.30 a.m. LONDON, January 28. Nairodi, a member of Paul Rainey's cinematograph expedition, was mauled by a lion when attempting to photograph it and succumbed to the injuries he sustained. HYDROPHOBIA. CASKS IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, January 28. A Corporal of the Field Artillery at Bangalore died of hydrophobia, caused by the bite, of a pet monkey, which was bitten by a mad dog in June. Seventeen others, bitten by the monkey, have been desaprehed to Madras to undergo the Pasteur treatment. VIOLENT GALE. EXPERIENCED IN ST. PETERSBURG. ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. The river Neva rose and only required another six to Hood the city. Guns were fired at the fortresses throughout; the night and green lights displayed from the Admiralty tower to indicate the extreme danger. Traffic was stopped on the bridges. The gale whirled houses away, derailed waggons and overturned pedestrians. APING DUKES. LABORITES IN A NEW LIGHT. LONDON, January 28. . At a conference of the Labour part;y at Glasgow, Mr. Ramsay MacDonaltl, M.P., claimed that the Labor Parliamentarians had done all forty men could. In the course of'a discussion, a delegate said that to assume that the Liberals' sacrifices were all on the Labour side was absurd. They should know what Mr. Lloyd George's proposals were because they had been sold so many times by inferior bills. Members of the Parliamentary narty usee; to be enthusiastic on an or inge box at the street corners, but now had other environments which had toned them down. They had lost their enthusiasm and were giving too much attention to aping dukes.