GENERAL CABLES.
Received February 9. 10 a.m. MUNICH, Feb. S. Fifty were injured in an eart! quake at llestatt. Many houses an public buildings were destroyed. Th confusion is indescribable as the who! population have abandoned the', houses. Invalids were carried iut the streets.
LONDON, Feb. is. In th© House of Commons Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary t* : Air, said ho hoped the Australian a::' mail would be operating lato in th' coming summer. ’ r CALCUTTA, Feb. 5. Weary of hooliganism and rioting the Bombay Government is amending th© law to permit whipping for tin* class of offence as fines and imprisonmeut are futile.
PARIS, Feb. ?. According to M. Bourayne. t president cf the commission of quirv, the fire on the liner Atlantia was caused by someone soaking pets with petrol in four cabins then igniting them. Only one i> son was near the cabins when the r started.
, SYDNEY, Feb. An agreement providing £lO. for an investigation of the New shale oil field has been signed by Fodi aiul State Ministers. The 'exam: tion will be conducted by a comm:, of seven.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 9 February 1933, Page 2
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