GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 June 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Loudon, June 11. IS.inbnry beat the Now Zealand bowlers by 47 to 3U. A Spanish lady resident in Paris named l)e Belstgiu obtained judgment against Frank Lacroix Gardiict. a company promoter, lately in London, for .C 527.000. Sir Edward Carson, K. 0., staled that plaintiff's secretary and oefemlant conspired to gradually procuro plaintiff's money on the pretence of investing it ou the basis of a division Of prullts between herself and tlardaor. She advanced (iardner £225,359 in casb, also £557,078 worth of securities. Jt was alleged that besides entering sm.il- '' lei- sums than received defendant draw '; dividends belonging to her, waking toe total £1)83,758. Khe received nothing in .. return. Mr Rufus Isaacs, KC, staled & that as his client, the defendant , hud i not appeared, and lie was unable to call*' him as a witness, he consented to judg-.jj. ment, whieli Air Justice Channel entered* with costs. - r The Kight Hon. H. Gladstono (Home '' Secretary) is almost dally pressed to ' secure the withdrawal of the ban on the opera "The Mikado." Yesterday ttio b.mil of the Japanese flagship Tsukuba, nt Chatham, was found playing many airs from "The Mikado," wluch forms part of their repertoire. Paris, June 11. Lo Matin stales that the Czar and the Kaiser meet at the eml of June, aliianl the Russian Imperial yacht, in the North Sen. Now York, June 11. Reports have reached Mexico that M. Cabrera, president of Guatemala, h*» been assassinated.

Mrs May Pepper, the celebrated Njw York spiritualist, was married to MrEdward Ward Vniidcrhilt, whose family are applying for sequestration of his estates on the ground that Pepper influenced him through a sprightly spirit know in New York society as "Little liright Eyes." The creditors of MiUtkcn Brothers, steel bridge builders, New York, have applied for the appointment of a re: ceiver. Milliken's lawyer states tlut _ the liabilities total £1,'300,000, and the assets £1,800,000.

Sydney, June J2. Sadeek, a Hindoo, was executed At llroken Hill for the murder of the -TOman Cooney iu January last. At a conference of inter-State University rowing delegates it was decided to send a team, if possible, to the Olympic sports in England next year. Norfolk Island, June 13. The fifty-first anniversary of the colony was celebrated by a picnic and sports in fine weather.

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