GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81910, 22 December 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

OBITI'ARY. Received 21st, 11.45 p.m. Sydney, December 21. The death is announe?d of Colonel Bayley, Lite Commandant of the South Australian Forces. MAGNIFICENT INVESTS. Received 2M, 11.45 p.m. Adelaide. December 21 By the death of the widow of the late James Martin. Adelaide Ho>pital benefits to the extent of .£95,000 and the Children's Hospital £47,500. UNEMPLOYED STRIKE I.KADEUS. Receiced 2lst. 11.45 p.m. Melbourne, December 21. Cabinet discussed the question of the re-employment of the leader- "i the late railway strike. The Pre mier, Mr Bent, undertook to tind them billets. ENTOMBED MINERS EXPERENCE. New York, Decemlrr 20. Hicks. a miliar, who \va> <>nt"ml»i<! for eleven days at Bakei>tield. California, was rescued. He was M for several days by means of a tube through the debris. PHANTOM SHIP MYSTERY SOLVED. New York, December 2". Navigators in the vicinity of Re maire Strait often reported a phantom ship and several wr*- wrecked in going to assist the suppo-ed ve>sel. The United States Hydrographie Office has solved the mystery., and th> rock is now to be charted which re sembles a ship.

ISOILEIi KXI'LOSION DISASTKII. Xtw York, December '2O. Tilt- boiler of a steamer named t liv leovel exploded. lilowinj; the ve--el tu fragments, at Vicksburg. Mi-oi-snpi. Fifteen negroes were killed and twelve injured. A WOL'LD-BK XRAITOR. London, December 2f. -Tames Abbott. a naval signalman at Chatham, was x'ntencvd to live years' imprisonment for trying to sell a mi»s ing signalbook. A SKILITL KVK orKKATFON. Vienna. December 20. Dr. Zirin, of Vienna.. after r>moving a boy a damaged eye. transplanted the cornea to a blind man, who is now able to read and work. A PLI'CKY PORTKR. Hobart. December 21. A truck containing ten barrel* of gunpowder caught tire un a travelling t train near Latrobe. The outside of onr of the barrels was burning, but a porter named Wiliiifnis pluekily extinguished it. AI'fcfTRALIAX XRADE. Melbourne, December 21. It is expected that the exports from the Commonwealth tlii* year will total CW.OOO.UW and the imports which constitute a record. rRISK.LV LAliUl'R. Melbourne. December 21. The As-embly endorsed tlte dovrrnment proposal to utilise pri-on labour in the con«itrnetion of roads. XtJE lil/ILDKRS' &XRIKK. Melbourne, December 21. A conference hu« b»rn arranged in regard to the building >trike.

labour nvrnhfr-* in tln* I stated that Uip depute \v<ml<l !"■ I nettled in a few days. TKEA'iMKNT OK srHOOI, TKACHEK*. Sydney. The Labour Council adopiod a r> solution condemning tin- jnrMuitahif treatment of M'hmvi It ithere up' *2OO tiM'-hcis in |f i( . State in wi-ipl of I?*—i than L'liO per annum.

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