GENERAL CABLES
GERMAN COLLIERY DISASTER
EIGHTY BODIES RECOVERED.
[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] .
BERLIN, July 10,
The death roll in the Hauskorf colliery disaster is expected to exceed one hundred and fifty. There were more than two hundred men in the mine when the poison gas began to pour in.
lEighty bodies have been recovered. Forty-nine have: been rescued alive, while there are eighty missing, all hope for whom lias been abandoned.
FLOOD IN KOREA. TOKIO, July 10. Official advices confirm the seriousness of the pa’st- week’s floods in Korea, which have (been the worst for years. There is a heavy death roll, with widespread inundations. The destniction of thousands of houses, the ruination of crops, and the interruption of the railways are among the effects. NEW ZEALAND PRESENTATION. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. Sir T. Wilford presented the British Empire Cluib on behalf of the New Zealand Government with a sixteen pointed red deer head and swordfish mounted and inscribed as a tribute to the Club’s hospitality to New Zealand.
New Zealand House will close on July 12th in honour of Sir Joseph Ward.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1930, Page 5
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