GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 14 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

ADVERSE CRITICISM. -ri iv I'Oria'oh, December 12. ihe Financial News criticises adversely tne prospectus of the United GoldIfelds ol New Zealand, which proposes to raise £l o o,ooo, with the intention to raise the capital later to £300,000. A CANCER CURE. London, December 12. Authenticated reports have been issued of several cures of cancer by radium Tih "h 0 . 16 lioa P ital for Skin Diseases 100- Xhe cures date from

MURDER AND ROBBERY. ~. London, December 12. lata, Broadfoot, a typiste, was found with her skuU fractured at her employer s oihee m Glasgow. , The safe hid been robbed.

A SUDDEN CALL. London, December 12, lhe Most Reverend G. H. Wilkinson, Bishop of St. Andrews, died from heart failure while he was addressing the

ALLEGED TEA COMBINE. . Loudon, December 12. Negotiations.are piogiessmg for the amalgamation of Sir T. Upton's firm the iuaypoie Dairy Company, the International Tea Company, and the Home and Colonial Stores. The present combined capital is £5,250,000, Ind the companies have between 4500 and 5000 shops in Britain. J A later cable states that the proposal ■to amalgamate is denied.

BANKS' LIABILITY TO CASH CHEQUES. ■ -i-i -.. linden, December 12, hj, , ')-ff oi tJle lm » ha * decided that, wliile banks are not bound to reluse payment of cheques on receipt of unaumenticatcd, telegrams, they mav reasonably postpone honouring such cheques until inquiries have beci made. LORD KELVIN ILL.

t Vi- i • Lonaon > December 12. i*r<l Kelvin, the eminent scientist, ti SHOCKING EXPLOSION. London, December 12. : ~ An explosion occurred at Kynoch's faetory. A horde and cart and three men were blown to fragments. The works were wrecked with great damage.

AN ANARCHIST CRIME,

St. Petersburg, December 12. Anarchists at Sevastopol murdered his wTfe S< * iOT "W*** «d