MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 168, 30 July 1901, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

I —. — [P«B PRESS ASSOCIATION^ London, Ju'y 28. The SI amnnk 11. has s*il*d for New York. She is *xp>cted to take sever - tren days on thu urn across. Admiral Cu'm« S yrrour has been appointed Vice-Admiral of the Unit erf Kingdom; and Admiral Ed sard Fremantte, Rear-Admiral of the Unit?d Kingdom. The-e appointments are inter* sting u being the revival of old titles. While returning to Valtoumancki after a peri'ous ascent of the Matterhorr, Miss Trow, a clargymanV danghtsr, slipped. Carrel, the If ader of the. party, gripped the ice and held his companion for two minutes, but the weight then carried all four towards* precipice 50ft. deep, at the foot of which was a short tJopo to the next precipice, fully 1000 ft. deep. Therop* snapped between Ciml and Miss M. Bell. Carrel was carried beyond them, •nd Miss Tro*, swing her companions, filtrk and rJ-1), lying dtad and terribly mu'ilated, cut tte ropi nnd want to Oarrel. M/ss Trow and Carrel werrarely injured. Mirs Bell was the daughter of Mr Edward Bell, a partnei in the firm of Ge rge Bsll and Sods, publishers. Dr. Black was ad the end of the rope. 0 her parties saw the catastrophe. Constantinople, July 28. The Batoum dicaser was caused by explosives in a A number of soldiers were kil'ed. Kew Yobk, July 28. The battleship Maine has been launched at Philadelphia.