GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Mail, 5 February 1902, Page 33

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

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In a speech he condemned the proposal of Lord Rosebery to clean the slate and frame a new Liberal policy. He declared that he had more confidence in a leader without a party" than in a party without principles.

LONDON, February 3. A violent north-easterly gale, lasting three days, has been experienced in Europe. It was especially severe in the Channel, causing a suspension of traffic and several wrecks.

The Ostend packet Marie Henrietta was disabled and drifted about—for sixty hours.

Efforts to reprovision her failed. ‘ BERLIN, February 3. Captain Sigsfeld and Dr Luicke, two German military aeronauts, ascending from Berlin, were carried to Antwerp in five hours.

Fearing a fall into the Scheldt, Dr Luicke safely jumped from the balloon, when about fifteen feet from the earth. Captain Sigsfeld’s feet caught in the ropes, and he strudk his head on the earth, breaking his neck. . The “Vorwaerts,” the German Socialists’ organ, publishes a secret State paper outlining a new Bill for increasing the number of German cruisers on foreign service.

Count von Bulow, the Imperial Chancellor, is endeavouring Co arrange a triangular bargain in the Reichstag to secure supnort to the proposed new Ger-man-tariff. The Conservatives, however, threaten to revolt if the Roman Catholics.are conceded abolition of the Jesuit laws.

NEV YORK, February 3. Mrs Soffel. wife of a warder of Pittsburg Gaol, Pennsylvania, chloroformed her husband, armed two brothers named Edward and John Biddell, who were imprisoned for murder, and enabled them to escape in a sleigh, herself eloping with Edward. The sheriff overtook and shot the brothers, who refused to surrender. Mrs Soffel attempted suicide The Biddells were chased over thirty miles, many shots being exchanged. Each of the prisoners was wounded seven times. Mrs Soffel received three wounds before she attempted suicide. The Biddells are both dead

TOKIO, February 3.. A hundred and ten Japanese infantry, while practising marching in the northern Nippon, lost their way. They burned their, haversacks and the stocks of their rifles for warmth, but all perished except one.

Twenty-one Japanese officers and soldiers who were lost while practising marching have been rescued in the last stage of exhaustion. MELBOURNE, February 3. TheTederal “Gazette” has proclaimed that after 31st March no letters will be passed through the Federal Post Offices addressed to “Tattersall’s. Hobart.” It is binted' that the difficulty of carrying on sweeps in Australia may be got over by arranging for subscribers to pay their money into a bank to the credit of Tattersall’s, and to receive tickets through the post from Hobart. The letters, being addressed to private persons, could not he interfered with. HOBART. February 3. Eadv has left for Sydney to practise for the fourth test match.

SYDNEY, February 3. A shock of earthquake was felt at Tumut. The vibration find rumbling lasted a minute.