LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4701, 1 December 1913, Page 5

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright.

(Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) London, This Day. Stevenson and Reece have also challenged Inman’s championship. (Received this day at 9 a.m.)

Paris, This, Day. A lady left a handbag containing £2OOO of jewels iu a cab. The cabman was arrested, and the police raided his cousin’s house. Iu the oven they found the ashes of the burnt bag, some molten metal and a few burnt stones.

Rome, This Day. Owing to a pointsman’s error a goods train and the Naples express collided at Cereuno. Six third-class passengers and the pointsman were killed. Twenty were injured. Giorelli. a restaurant employee, became suddenly demented at Nice railway station. He jumped from a train and attacked the passengers, who were alighting with a knife, wounding ten of them. Alelbourne, This Day. A wireless message has been received stating that the Aurora arrived at the Macquaries on Fridav “all well.” Perth, 'This Day. A suspicious case has been quarantined at Narrogen, midway between Perth and Albany. Halifax, This Day. It is stated that the British collier Invergyle. with a cargo of coal for the warship New 7 Zealand, is overdue. It is believed that she was lost in the recent gales. Sydney. This Day. AVhile four boys were resting on the edge of a waterhole at AVilloghby after getting Christmas bells in the bush one. George \Y lilam Cook, eight years of age, fell in. John Francis Cook, aged twelve, his cousin, who was the eldest of the party, jumped in to the rescue. Both were drowned.