GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81875, 27 October 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

SOAP TRUST. ' London, October 25. The soap combine began by reduc- ' ing the pound bar to 15 ounces, ] causing a great outcry. Indignation I meetings have been held. Lever Bros, announce that the ' ounce has been restored. ; Half of the manufacturers arc outside the combine. ALIENS IN 'FRISCO SCHOOLS. New York. October 25. Japanese school children in San Francisco were segregated partly owing to the prevalence uf trachoma and partly through the action of Labour Unions. MURDER OF AN ACTRESS. New York, October 25. Ringleaders of the Brack Hand Society, who are kidnappers and blackmailers', captured during a midnight raid Margaret Leslie, a well known New York aciP'-s. who was --opposed to have committed suicide. A man named Nicholas was arrested on a charge of selling Miss Leslie's diamonds, and confessed hj? was her t "vtirderor, a chemist's assistant being n ; s ' accomplice. A FATAL FIRE. New York, October 25. Through' 1 •-' t.Trm apartments over the Chamber of ( ..mrm-rcc Kansas Citv, 20 peop 1" P<-m.i<-d in tho flames ) and 50 were injured. AN AEROPLANE, Paris. October 25. M. Santos Dunn>m's new aeroplane flew seventy yards- at l.ongclinmps at a height of 6ft.