THE WORLD OVER.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1457, 8 November 1911, Page 7

THE WORLD OVER.

WRECKS AND FIRES. GALE IN BRITAIN. (Preen Association.—By Telegraph.— Copyright). London, Yesterday. The steamer Haiisy. wihidh mas wrecked at the Lizards, has disappeared. The oairgo is wasliing astae., TJiio Greek Lordos Byron' fouiiclared in to OkaiimieJ, 22 being drowned.

Haggeston Oastto (NoHtamheiv land), 'belonging to Cfaistopher Leyland, and containing a number of valuable pictures, was kminifc. TUie damage was .estimated at £IOO,OOO. A gale occurred in Britain with a velocity of eighty miles per hour and tremendous blinding squalls of hail. The Dieppe Newhaven packet was blown ashore; fifteen aeroplanes in a shed at Oxford were wrecked. Mr Justice Neville lias decided that tile Birkbeck Bank directors exceeded their bomrowiiig powers for banking, and tfafc as tte depositor kidi notice of the 'legality, they would come last in the distribution of the assets, There is much comment on the withdrawal of Lord Charles Beresford's hook entitled "Betrayal" after the review copies were issued. New York, Yesterday. The steel span 'bridge wJiioh was being buiilt iby the Mountain Quarries Company across am American; river at Auburn (California), collapsed. Many peracnis were onjuied, and tkiee bodies kire been recovered.