GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 95, 17 December 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

A GIANT SWINDLER. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Helsingfors, December 10. Liman's swindles have created a sensation. Ho was thirty years in the service of the bank, and was implicitly trusted. After advancing money on securities ho abstracted them and obtained personal loans on them Irom other banks. Over two hundred firms and wealthy persons have been partially or wholly ruined. Two female cashiers who have been arrested have confessed that they were aware of Idman’s irregularities.

A FOREIGNER’S END. Sydney, December IG. James Duncan, aged 82, was found dead in a cabin on the German liner Zieten, which arrived on Saturday. Hu boarded the vessel at Antwerp, on route to New Zealand, and became ill soon after sailing. The ship’s doctor attended him throughout the voyage, and after arrival ho was badly wasted. When he arrived the Customs authorities prohibited his landing. Ho received every attention, but if allowed to land could have passed his last hours in the hospital.

THE BEIT FELLOWSHIPS. London, December 15. Beit Fellowships of £250 have been awarded to Elsie Dalzell, of Sydney, for investigations of gastro-enteritis in infants at the Lister Institute, to S. W. Patterson, Melbourne, for diabetes researches at the University College, and to Harrie Schultze, Melbourne, for blood researches at the Lister Institute,