GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Issue 12860, 6 May 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CYCLONE IN AMERICA. TWO DEATHS; SIX INJURED. Received .May 5, tUo p.in. NEW YORK, -May 4. A cyclone at Maud, Texas, destroyed ftiany houses. A mother and her child were killed. Six people were injured at Redwater, where all the houses were levelled.-. Other damage i.s unknown. RECENT COLLIERY DISASTER. CHARGES AGAINST MANAGER. Received May (i, 8.." a.m. LONDON, May 5. The Home Office has issued summonses .igiinst Edward Shaw, manager of the Sengli-'irydd mine, for negligence in connection with safety-lamps, the registration < f the temperature, failure to provide moans for reversing the air current, and failure to prevent dust accumulating. FRAUDULENT STOCKBROKER. COMMUTED FOB TRIAL. Received May (i, P.."5 a.m. LONDON, May o. Foniicr, the stockbroker who was connected with, the Marconi share transactions, and who afterwards went bankrupt, has been committed for triaj. Ho stated iliat he must admit the truth of the charges. He did not wish to make any excuse. He resetted the pain and loss to iiis creditors, and would do his Utmost to help the trustees to deal with the estate in their interests. JAPANESE ALLIANCE. PROPOSAL FOB FATFNSION. LONDON. May 5. A suggestion is made by Count Okuma (Premier of Japan) that the Anglo-Japanese alliance should be extended and iii economic alliance formed with China. DISCOVERY IN EGYPT. CAIRO. May 1. The directors of the Kgypt Kxploration Fund have discovered a new poem by the Greek poetess Sappho. A \r\v stanzas are readable, though they are on damaged pap\ rus. PANAMA EXPOSITION. ATTHTDK OF BRITAIN. LONDON. May .">. A deputation urged Mr Asquith ki reserve the decision that Great Britain shall not be loprosontod at the San Francisco Kxposftion. The 'limes, in ;i lender state- that the feeling in the House of Commons is shown by the fact that <MW> members, a clear majority, signed a memorial urging reconsideration of the position". A British pavilion, costing a maximum of Cif li 1.1 Hill, ought to 1)0 elected for reiiMMis iii business, but especially for reasons oi -ontiinoiit, the purpose oi the exposition being to commemorate the greatest feat of An.erie.an enterprise. The Government's refusal of the Presidential invitation has bewildered nnd exasperated Americans, who / feel snubbed and slighted.