GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 20, 18 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A HEROIC DOCKER. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, July 16. O'Brien, a docker at Liverpool, who rushed into n blazing cellar and rescued two children, afterwards succumbed to his burns. CARRIED OVER A PRECIPICE. Berne, July 10. A railwayman, whilst bathing"in the Frodalunga torrent, was caught in a current and carried over a cascade, falling over a precipice, called the Salto Delia Morte, which is 1000 feet deep.

A NEW LINER LAUNCHED. London, July 10. The Australian liner Brisbane has been launched at Swan and Hunter's yards. . SMALLPOX AND VACCINATION. London, July 16. The official report of the recent outbreak of smallpox in London states that there was one death among 46 victims, who had been vaccinated, and nine among 22 who had not been vaccinated. PARLIAMENTARIANS BANQUETTED. London, July 16. The Chamber of Commerce at Birmingham entertained the overseas Parliamentarians, Mr. Jesse Colling 3 presiding. AN UNSUCCESSFUL APPEAL. London, July 16. E. T. Hooley unsuccessfully appealed against Justice Eady's writ of attachment for contempt in failing to supply the trustee in bankruptcy with halfyearly accounts of profit and loss in business transactions in his own and his wife's account in accordance with the judgment of November, 1909. I THE ALBANIAN RISING. Athens, July 16. The Turks have sent two mountain | batteries and 120 gunners to Miturovitza. TRAIN WRECKERS CAPTURED. Pans, July 16. Police patrolling the roads at Choisy-Le-Roi in a silent automobile caught I some train wreckers red-handed. They had in their possession appliances for cutting high tension wires and unscrewing sleepers.