GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

IRISH NATIONAL POLITICS. London, December 20. On the ground that the right to convene the National Convention rested with the directory, Mr. John Redmond ( A declared that he was unable to accede M to Mr. William O'Brien's request to sub- M in it the recent agreement to the Con- fl vention. Mr. O'Brien declares that there jH are no other means of giving practical H ell'cct to the principles agreed upon. 9 KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED. M Paris, December 26. a A > woman named Felicite Veletutti, a her lover Cecario Passet, and another 1 Juan named Besial have been sentenced 1 to penal servitude for life at Marseilles 1 for kidnapping and torturing Mortco, a j wealthy merchant, and compelling him ~j to sign cheques. ' A VALUABLE BEQUEST. ! London, December 20. Owing to the .death of the widow of Sir William Pearcc, Trinity College, Cambridge, receives a bequest of £400,000 immediately., CONCESSION TO RAILWAY MEN. i London, December 26. The Midland Railway Company has ■ conceded all its employees a six days' week with extra pay for Sundays. CHARITABLE BEQUESTS. London, December 28. The estate in Great Britain of the late Mrs. Ellen Cottrell Nut, late- of Hobart and Melbourne, has been valued' at £28,179. She bequeathed £IOO each to the Infant Schools, Sailors' Home, and Unprotected Girls' Society at Hobart, and £IOOO to benevolent societies in London. It is now announced that the Baroness Rothschild's charitable bequests total £400,000. FEEDING THE HUNGRY. New York, December 20. The Salvationists throughout America undertook the feeding of the poor. They ' gave 150,000 dinners in New York. V i A STRANGE CHRISTMAS DINNER. New York, December 26. Three miners who have, been entombed since 4th December in the Ely mjne, Nevada, had their Christmas dinner . passed to them through a/ tube. It will I be three weeks before they are released. >,— ■ A CASTLE BURGLED. London, Dcembcr 20, : Burglars using a motot--cnr for means i of escape entered Cholmondeley .Castle, ; the seat of the Marquis of Cholnien—•* deley, in Cheshire. They secured many , heirlooms, racing cups, and other troi phics. ': SCENE IN A PULPIT. i London, December 20. A land agitator named Gray surreptitiously entered the pulpit at Manches- , tcr Cathedral on Christmas morning and • attempted to address the congregation. ,-- He was ejected after a violent struggle' in the pulpit. A DEFAULTING MUNICIPALITY. Paris, December 26. Owing to the Toulon Socialist municipality refusing to pay the local electric lighting company's bill of £IO,BOO for lighting the town a bailiff was placed in possession of the Town Hall. CRIME IN AMERICA. New York, December 20. Burglaries In New .York during 1907 involved losses aggregating £3,200,000, including £,700,000 during the last sixty., days. The wave of crime also renched"" the highest mark recorded in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, and Boston. It is attributed to the unusual number of unemployed. HIGHWAY FOR MOTORS. " London, December 26. A company is being formed for the purpose of promoting the passage of a Bill through Parliament authorising the construction of a motor road between London and Windsor at an estimated cost of £1,215,000. The company pro- n. poses to charge tolls. JOHN BURNS' CHRISTMAS. I London ,December 20The Right Hon. John Burns spent lu's Christmas in visiting the inmates of the greatest London workhouses, diphtheria and fever hospitals, and cheering the patients. MOROCCO. Morocco, December 20. The authorities have restore'd order at Fez by remitting all taxation.