GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 15 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SAKURASHIMA DISASTER. !BY ELECTBIC TELEGBAPH COPYBIGHT. I PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. I Received January 15, 9.30 a.m. ; . TOKIO, Jan. 14. Warships which have arrived at Kagoshima report that the town has been practically destroyed by the eruption, and also the villages and towns of the neighborhood. The small island on which Sakurashima stands is situated near the head' of Kagoshima Bay (on the south coast of Kinsiu, the southernmost island of the Japanese group), and is opposite the town of Kagoshima, on the mainland. THE LIVERPOOL MURDER. Received January 15, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 14. Sunvnei' and Eltoft have been committed for trial for the murder of Miss Bradfield. At the inquest on January 8 on Miss Bradfield, whose body was found in the Manchester Canal, Eltoft, who was in I the witness-box for an hour and a-half, showed remarkable self-possession. He I declared that he was outside the shop! when the murder was and he believed 1 Sumner when the latter told him that the sack contained rubbish. Sumner lifted the sack from the cart and dragged it to the canal. DOMINION'S HOUSE. Received January 15, 11.10 a.m LONDON, Jan. 14. The 'Evening Standard' states that Canada has definitely decided not to build a Dominion House at Westminster. It is also unlikely to entertain the Aldwich site. The Government is disinclined to embark on an expensive scheme at present. JAPANESE BUDGET.

»? ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLE. Received' January 15, 8.30 a.m. TOKIO, Jan. 14. The budget provides for a new naval programme of £16,000,000 spread over seven years. The naval appropriation for the current year is increased to £3,500,000 and the army vote decreased by £7,000,000. RADIUM LANDS. Received January 15, 8.30 a.m. WASHINGTON Jan. 15. A resolution has been introduced in Congress authorising the President to nationalise lands containing radium ores. The resolution has the backing of the administration, but is opposed: by western members.

ISLAM PAPER SUPPRESSED. Received January 15, 8.30 a.m. DELHI, Jan. 14. The Government has suppressed' at Lahore the pan-Islamic newspaper "Zemindar," which has the widest circulation of any Hindustani organ. AN ALLEGED SWINDLE. LONDON, Jan. 14. Madame Sophy Rathlou, of Copenhagen, is suing Alfred Copland, Admiral E. H. M. Davis, and William Ray, directors of the Papua Trading and Planting Syndicate, alleging that she invested £5750 owing to misrepresentations. The syndicate acquired: 12,600 acres from Bert Hayes. Defendants' counsel alleged 1 that Hayes disappeared when trouble arose. ASSASSIN LEAD POISONED. Received Jauary 15. 9.30 a.m. PARIS, Jan. 14. A young man attempted to see Oherif Pasha,, the leader of the Turkish Radicals. He shot and wounded Cherif's servant. Cherif's son-in-law shot the assailant dead.