GENERAL'CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8999, 23 January 1906, Page 5

GENERAL'CABLES.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

[press association.] BRUSSELS, January 22.

An express was derailed near Ghent. Forty-three British mail bags containing two hundred thousand sterling registered values were burnt. >

OBITUARY..

LONDON, January 22. George Jacob Holyoake, Chartist, aged 89, is dead.

SHRUBB'S APPEAL DISMISSED.

LONDON, January 22. The Amateur Athletic Association has dismissed Shxubb'e appeal.

TECHNICAL TRAINING.

LONDON; January 22i

The Departmental Committee recommends the uniting of the Royal Colleges of Science and Mines with London. University.

Magnus, superintendent of the Department of Technology in the City and Guilds of London Institute, predicts that the Jiew institution will be superior to any other in Europe or America. I

A FOREIGNER IN AUSTRALIA.

(Received January 23, 10.3 a.m.J

SYDNEY, January 23.

With reference to the case of Maloup (the foreigner who was refused a renewal of the residence permit) the American consul has intervened against his deportation. Diplomatic negotiations are proceeding.

AN ENGINEER DISAPPEARS.

(Received January 24, 10.3 a.m.) BRISBANE, January 23. Mr Buchanan, engineer of the new turbine 6teanier Binga, ior the QueenslaJid coasta] trade, is missing. He had Been much worried over the. turbine machinery.