GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 21, 19 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

STEAMER FARES RAISED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright 1 London, July 17. Owing to the increase in seamen's <; wages, the Atlantic lines have advanced f; passenger rates ten shillings.

A BRAVE GENERAL. London, July 17. The King praised the gallantry of General Fanshawe in placing himself in front of a fallen artilleryman, thus preventing a! galloping cavalry brigade riding over him at the recent Dublin review. CONTINENTAL EXPRESS DERAILED. Berlin, July 17. The Basle-Berlin express was derailed at Mullheim. Eight persons were killed and twenty badly injured. Berlin, Later. Four more persons have died as a result of the Mullheim railway disaster. CHOLERA IN NEW YORK.

New York, July 17. There is an outbreak of cholera among recently arrived Italians. Six are dead out of fifteen cases. WHOLESALE MURDER. New York, July 17. Mysterious murders at Atlanta, believed to have been perpetuated by a white degenerate, have terrorised the negro population. Eight women have been killed. FARM INSTITUTES. London, July 17. The Development Commissioners are distributing £3-25,000 to establish farm institutes in the majority of counties similar to that at Chelmsford, with small holdings for demonstration purposes. A WOMAN SPY. Vienna, July 17. The daughter of a Russian engineer named Trombecka has been arrested at Puzemsl, in Austrian Poland, with plans of fortresses and routes. She confessed that she was a spy in the employ of the military authorities.