MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyrightFALL DOWN A MINE SHAFT. LONDON, February 6. A man at the Meadow Oolliery, in Staffordshire, pushed a tub into a elhaft under the mistaken impression that the cage was at the top. He fell with the tub 249 feet into Water at the foot of the shaft, and was rescued uninjured. ANOTHER OOLLIERY EXPLOSION. NEW YORK, .February 6. An explosion in the Earnest Colliery, in Pennsylvania, billed eleven miners. THE GERMAN EMPRESS. BERLIN, February 6. The newspaper “Tageblatt” states that the German Empress arid her daughter,' Princess Victoria Louise, will visit England in the spring. A FAST CRUISER. ' . BERLIN, February 6. The new third-class oraisor Mainz, of 4243 tens, 20,000 horse power, in her speed trials at Danzig, registered 29 3-6 knots an hour. . . AIRSHIP FLOTILLA. ST. PETERSBURG, February 6. The Defence Committee of the.Duma reoommemdls the construction of a flotilla of airships, and the acceleration of plans tfor dealing with enemies’ airships in wartime. FINNISH ELECTIONS. ■ ST. PETERSBURG, February 6. Socialists and anti-Russian members have been largely returned at the Finnish elections. A manifesto hy German professors upon Russian designs again Finnish autonomy has provoked much anger throughout Russia.

■MYSTERY OF THE SEA. SYDNEY, February 7. The Dord Shaftesbury, -which, called at Pitcairn Island during the voyage out, reports that a life-buoy marked “Silverhorn, Liverpool,” Was lately cast up an Bounty Beach. The fate of the Silverhorn is one of the sea mysteries of recent times. She left Newcastle dm. June, 1907, for Ohile, South America, and was never heard of again. LARGE STORE DESTROYED. MELBOURNE. February 7. Gust’s large store at Rainbow, in the north-west of the State, has been destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to £15,000.'