GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81912, 27 December 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

PLAGUE. Sriz, December 26. Berlin from Adelaid eucf of plague at Suez. REVENUE. Losoox, December 26. np.to Saturday wa: abort Mr Asquith's ei

A BIG BOBBKEY. Bceeircd 28,10.21 p.m. HT Bbcssus, December 26. ■Forty thousand sterling in bonds Pkd twenty thousand in cash was ■total from the sisters Kufelmonde, Bar Antwerp. The chief burglar leaped, but four supposed accomptites ■narrated.

A GHASTLY BUSINESS. Received 25th ]» ajn. Paris, December 24 Ac Paris police raided a maternity ■a and found a stove where it is tged over one hundred new-born into ham been cremated. Keeelved 38, 10.21 p.m. Pabis, December 26. tif estimated that fifteen hundred nig hare been cremated in the tanutj it the home in Paris'. WESOI FEMALE SUFFRAGE. Received 23th. 10 o.tn. Paris. December 24. B responw to the views of a illation, the French Minister for iot has promised the Trench Socialto introduce a Female Suffrage ANOTHER KOPEMCK RUSE. Received 25th, 10 a.m. 1 . Berlin, December 24. Two brother* named Will were arrested in Bavaria on a charge of obtaining large sains of money under Use pretener*. A thin! brother, who ■as not arretted at the time, induced ■a* B*3feL'° Hherate the other two, a reward of £17.500 mi •£100,1)00 a yiar later on. IIInrexented they were really the Ausnan Crown l"rinccs The brother nd the gaoler were apprehended, and Hfcneed to two years' imprisonment, nVe the brothers Wills were re-ar-aVed and sentenced to a lons term Hnjnrisonment. I A PECULIAR DEFENCE. ■■ Beceived 2»th, 12.4<l a.m. H New York, December 24. Ik grand jury at Wat kins. New Kirk, refused to indict Frederick ■obey, a broker's son, for murdering Ecderiek Dickenson, his wife's adKrer. The refusal was based on the loetrine of unwritten law. I Counsel appearing for Harry Tha-v. [he Pittsburg millionaire, who shot Stanford, White, another millionaire, u, Madison Square Garden Theatre, New York, on June 26tb, is preparing a similar defence on bis clients behalt. It was alleged that White had pernated in taunting Thaw with his r a past. A DISASTROUS COLLISION. r?*,. Beceived 23th. 10.13 a.uL New York, December 24. 'A edSMoa occurred on the MinneaOlis South-tJaiAt Marie railroai. A urn ran into an engine at Engerlin, forth Dakota and was derailed. wenty-tive people were killed and I any injured. I " BURGLARS' BIG HAUL. Beceived 23th. 10.13 a.m. London, December 25. Burglars, climbing a wastepipe, teed the skylight and entered the causes of the London Goldsmiths' Hapany, Oxford street, awl stole aWO worth of jewellery. l THE EDUCATION BILL. 2sth, 2sth, 10.13 a.m. London, December 23. Gross urges the Anglicans to bear tbe expense of special instruction in their schools. LNADA AND THE WASHINGTON AMBASSADORSHIP. */*" Beceived 25th, 10 a.m. London, December 23. The Daily ilail" say» it is undcrood that Canada has appointed tb» M for Mr BrTse,' the new British ibassador at Washington. J£PHONING BETWEEN MOVING TRAINS. Beceived 23tb, 10.15 a.m."" New York. Deccmlx-r 24. T. Ahra Jones, of Luisville, lias ed the problem of maintaining phonic coinuiinication between ring trains. KB OF CUMBERLAND'S CLAIMS Berlin, Deecmlwr 24. Che Council of the Regency of limnick brings Mere the Federal Cowithe question of the Duke of Chintend and his >on'i succession to the one. '"THE SPANISH .SUCCESSION. '; Madrid, December 2:1. hi <|uccn of Spain's accouchcit n ewctcd in April. ing Alfonso lias onb r.d a three »' court festival at Christmas.