GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 308, 3 January 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Keceived Jan 2, 9.37 p.m. Londuu, January 2. l'he bulk of the estate ut' a entailer ot a million leit by omith, lace manufacturer, was bequeathed tu the widows and spinsters ot .Nottinghamshire. ° Keceived Jan. 2, !U0 p.m.

London, January 2. It is ollieially announced that Ill's .Majesty King lidward opens Parliament on the Stllli nwt., Queen Alexandra accompanying him. Lord Aunbornholme's estate is valued at nearly a million sterling.

London, January 1. The New South Wales agency's annual report states that assisted passages were granted to 2/79 farm workers and domestics out of 13",770 applicants. A favorable feature of the year's work is the higher percentage of immigrants who were friends of immigrants previously assisted.

Seven and a-half million sterling was subscribed to metropolitan charities in 1907, besides many bequests. The Navy League insists that the next Naval Estimates must amount to £40,000,000 if Great Britain Jays down two keels where Germany lays down one.

The revenue for the quarter ended December 3l»t totalled £33,800,000, whereof Customs contributed £8,593,000 excise £10,720,000, ami stamps £2,010,-' 000 ' ' l-'kl '|jf; New York, January 2. Allieit Thompson, an English median, ic, was arrested on suspicion of murdering on Christmas night a beautiful young woman and leaving her bodv in a swamp at Harrison, New Jersey.' He said le was a bachelor, but later stated ... ,* Wlf ° Le!ia was in New Zealand nth his young son. The accusation at piesent is not confirmed. innnn limdlor,ls propose to evict' 1 ,000 tenants. A girl named Nerman, an ardent Socialist, i s inciting an imrnZZ ° f tc,,ants t0 passive resistance.

, . T Paris, January 1. Doctor Jean Charcot intends next ' cad »» Antarctic expedition r,, a. Grahttms land, hoping to annti ®xaiidcrland, thenee proceeding southwards, using , no t or s i edgcs _ He n fjf «, n l rench Chamb «' of Deputies to ote COO,OOO francs, and tlie public to subscribe 150,000 francs. Berlin, January 1. i i" 1 l 110r '- ft faSllio ™ l,) y flossed K 1 of 18, belonpng to a good German | •. . v ' wns arrested at Lucerne with a male companion and charged with >mg aiy. R) IP carried se { irntn" ' 9 . to °'-*' a,so much gold, bank lot 's, and jewellery. She fired six s ioI S fruitlessly at the gendarmes and melted her companion to follow her example. He refrained and declared that he was only Knnmer's servant. I

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