GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

SALE UNDER DISTRAINT. London, March 2-5. The widow of Sir James Steel, a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh, refus?d to pay hoqpe property tax in absence of a vote. A portion of her furniture was therefore auctioned in the presence of 5000 persons, to meet the demand. A FATAL EXPERIMENT. Amsterdam, March 2.1. Lieut. Schurnmn was killed at the Amsterdam arsenal while firing a new model shell of hia own invention. Another man was also killed, ami two wounded. ! A KIDNAPPING INCIDENT. Constantinople, March 2.").' The son of Mr. Robert Abbott, a I!ritish merchant at Salonika, was kidnapped within a stone's throw of the British Consulate, and is held for ransom. THE 'FRISCO MAIL SERVICE. New York, March 2-1. Owing to the stoppage of the steamship service, the Califomian and Australian postmasters will not accept parcels for Australia until further notice. QUEENSLAND huUAR INDUSTRY. Brisbane, March 20. A numl>er of cane-growers. di-eoiirag-'J at -their inability to secure suitable labor, talk about emigrating to Northern Queensland rather than allow the canefields to 1* filled with the scum from Australian cities.