GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144358, 24 March 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A STEAMER LOST. BY ELECTSIO TELEORAPSI. —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 23. The steamer Heinrich, coal-laden, from Cardiff to Marseilles, foundered with twenty hands. A COLLIERY CLOSED. LONDON, March 23. The Whitburn colliery, employing 2fio .hands, is closing owing to heavy working expenses. NATAL INDIANS SENTENCED. DURBAN, March 23. Thirteen Indians have been sentenced to six months’ hard labour for rioting at Esperanza in November. GERMAN POSTAL SUBSIDIES. BERLIN, March 23. The Government, has presented the Postal Subsidy Bill in the Reichstag. JER USALKM UP-TO-DATE. LONDON, March 20. Jerusalem is bring Europeanised with electric light, waterworks, and tramways. One line will run from the Jaffa gate to Bethlehem, and one to the head of the Valley of Jehosophat. None will enter the old city within the walls. PAPUAN TIMBER COMPANY. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES! (Received March 24, 3 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. A company lias been formed to take over the Papuan timber sawmill business in the Pacific. The title is Papua Produce, Limited. REGULATION OF FREIGHTS. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. (Received March 24, 8 a.ra.) LONDON. March 23. The International Shipping Federation urged shippers to retrieve the freight depression by the regulation of freights. THE TASMANIAN LOAN. TIMES AND SYDNEY BUN SERVICES. (Received March 24, S a.m.) LONDON, March 23. Only 20 per cent, of the Tasmanian 4 per cent, loan for £1,500,000, which was issued at 09, has boon taken np by the public. THEFT FROM THE LOUVRE. (Received March 24, 8.50 a.mJ PARIS, March 23. A magnificent seventy-foot -papyrus of the Egyptian “Book of the Dead” is missing from the Louvre. FIRE AT BOMBAY. (Received March 24 , 8.50 a.m.) BOMBAY, March 23. Sixty thousand bales of cotton have been burned, and tho damage is estimated at half a million storlm". END OF GERMAN BLUEBEARD. (Received March 24. 11.10 a.m.) BERLIN, March 23. Karl Hopf. tho wife poisoner, has been executed. PARLIAMENT ARY CASE SETTLED. (Received March 24, 11.10 a-m.) LONDON, March 23. Tlie whole litigation in'the Sir Stuart Samuel case lias been settled, but the terms are not disclosed. [Sir Stuart Samuel’s firm was interested in dealings in silver for the Government, and was sued for having voted in the House of Commons subsequently,]