GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 63, 8 December 1926, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES

Lydia Lindgren, _ the grand opera star, committed suicide at Boston.

Captain Williams has departed from Eden on the final stages of his homeward flight.

Following the Catlau plot, the French Government has reinforced the military police on the Franco-Spanish frontier.

The Italian Cabinet has decided to levy a progressive tax on bachelors between 25 and 60, to provide for funds for assistance to a scheme for national maternity and child welfare.

Solicitors announce that owing to differences British National Pictures have terminated slr. J. D. Williams’s agreement as managing director (says a London message). sfr. Williams has issued a writ claiming damages for breach of agreement.

It is reported from New York that three robbers in Alannheimer’s department store, at St. Paul, surprised and handcuffed a watchman. While they leisurelv looted safes they made him do an'hourly round ringing signal boxes, and thus avoiding automatic alarms. The thieves carried off £BOOO in cash and securities.

Following a domestic quarrel, William Wood, aged 42, shot his wife dead with a revolver in the street at Woolloomootoo, New South Wales, and then committed suicide with the same weapon. It appears that the couple were living apart, and Wood visited the house, where his wife was living. A quarrel ensued. Wood drew a revolver, and the terrified woman rushed into the street, where her husband shot her in the back of the head, lhe tragedy was witnessed by a number of people.