GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 6 December 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH ENTERPRISE- IN ABYSSINA. London, December 4. A Britih syndicate lias acquired the only known coalfield in Abyssinia. POLISH SCHOOLS Du-i ii_.iLTY. London, December 4. Reuter's correspondent a. K< me reports that the Pope has decided not to interfere with the schools trouble iu l'osen, insomuch as is taught in German only in the case of children who understand German, other Po.cs being taught in l'-iiim. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. London, December 4. A man named Ash, emr,: >ycd as a packer in Barnstaple, staobed and hacked his sweetheart to death and then stabbed a pedestrian, whom he met as ho fled, lie finally committed 6uicidc by throwing himself under a train. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RENOUNCES CORRUPTION. New York, December 4. President Roosevelt has decided that un'.ess the Republican pi.ty managers refund /ijo 000 rect-iec! from the Mutual and Equitable (New Y'erk) Life Insurance Companies towards his election expenses in 1004, he will personally repay t..e- m >iiey. A MURDERER EXECUTED. London, December 4. Richard Buckham was executed at Chelmsford for the murder of the Watsons. (Two brothers, Richard and Robert Buckham. sons of a farmer, were charged with minder, but Robert was acquitted. It appeals th;:t ilie murdered man and his'wife had been lok! not to take water from a certain place on the farm. Ear'y on tne morning of the tragedy the brotherswent out, Richaid taking a gunostensibly for the purpose c i e, looting rabbits. Meeting Watson anc" li-i wife, he abused them, and then, in a mad frenzy, shot both at c'ose quar e:s, afterwards appropriating some of their property.)