GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 32, 27 January 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

RUSSIAN ROBBERS RELEASED. Paris, January 24The Russians arrested in Paris on a charge of being implicated in the recent robbery of a mail train near Titlis have been released, because they are outside the jurisdiction of the French Courts. They have heen conducted to the frontier.

STOLEN PICTURE RECOVERED. Loudon, January 24. Vandyck'a picture, "The Elevation of the Cross," which was stolen from the Courtrai Church in Belgium, was found in a gipsy's van at Bruges. BANK WRECKED. New York, January 24. The front of a bank in the Italian quarter of the city, was wrecked by a bomb placed outside A quantity oi bullion was scattered about, but the police recovered it all.

A BANKRUPT SOLICITOR. London, January 24. The assets of James Herbert Farmer, a bankrupt solicitor, included clMMHiii worth of bonds in the »!. 11. Druee Company, which realised only .CI 1-

A TRAIN COLLISION. London, January H. An express train at Wimbledon dueled into a lopal train during a fo)r. Twelve persons were injured. DOMESTIC SERVANTS' UNION. Sydney. January io. A Domestic Workers' t'niou lias been formed here | THE PLAGUE. | Brisbane. January I~>. I-'onr ea*es of pia;_nie have been reported during the week. ' Two ot the , palient- died.