GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 26 January 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW LINER LAUNCHED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Loudon, January 24. The Aberdeen liner Themistocles bad a successful "trial from Cardiff to London. Many Australian and New Zealand shippers were present. THE MIKADO'S VENGEANCE. Tokio, January 24. Dr. Kotuku, his wife, and ten others have been executed. HELP FOR WELSH STRIKERS. London, January 24. A national conference sitting in London, representing 000,000 miners, agreed to financially assist the 12,000 Cambrian strikers. CHOLERA OUTBREAK. London, January 24. An outbreak of cholera is reported at Perim. THE REVOLT IN YEMEN. Constantinople, January 24. The Government is increasing the expeditionary force to Yemen to suppress the rapidly growing revolt. The first transports have started. A WOMAN SENTENCED. Berlin, January 24. Frau Herbcrich has been sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment for having shot her husband. LAW-BREAKERS' DEFIANCE. New York, January 24. Three men accused of forgery at Sumner, Washington State, have fortified themselves in a cabin, and set the authorities at defiance. THE JAPANESE NAVY. Vancouver, January 24. Advices by mail state that Japan is about to lay the keel of a 40,000-ton battleship 1 . ROBBERY OF JEWELS. New York, January 24. The residence, at Pittsburg, of Harry K. Thaw, who was convicted of the murder of Stanford White, has been robbed of jewels to the value of £OOOO. CLAY-PIT COLLAPSES. London, January 24. The collapse of a clay-pit at Vinesville, Normanby, entombed two men. The res-cuers-lowered sixteen loaves, some soup, fifty quarts of cider, and tobacco. Then a second collapse occurred, cutting off communication. The rescuers worked day and night for eleven and a half days. The shaft collapsed four times, but the men were eventually rescued.