GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8163, 23 July 1906, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

London, July 20. Watson's bonded warehouses at Dundee and Robertson'd distillery have been bnrnt oat. There was an enormous destruction of whisky, and the streets (lowed with the burning spirit. The fire spread to a jute warehouse and five acres were aflame. The damage is at least half a million sterling. Komb, July 20. The Pope has poisoned his thumb by pricking it with a steel pon.' Sidney, Jnly 21.. |

A boundary-rider while digging for rabbits nt Jfolong unearthed an old tin containing two hundred and fiftyseven sovereigns of early dutes. T' ese arc supposed to hive belonged to a man called "Jack of Spidos" w!io died many yeirs ngo, and who was believed to have hid seyeral lots of money planted. TKi nmn's real na e was Lsvngdin, nnd he rlied at Molong eig'i teen years While inoenlatin:' cattlo he pricked his finger with a needle and blood poisoniig siipervenod His fingers, hand, and avnf *refe siicees sively removed, lut the poison spread into his body and he was killed. There hnye been many Alpine fata lities this season. Six have been re portedjin the last two days. The crieltot toam which is to visit New Zealand will consist of fourteen. C. C. Page and W. P. Harrison, of the Middlesex Club, have accepted.