GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 54, 22 February 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

VAXLAiiLE FIUULE sXULtA. Vienna, Fcbruai.i M. A Stradivaruia Oulin, belouging 10 i-ugcni Vsaye, the famous iioguu lioUnist, was siok-n at S(. IVlersOurg. It had coat the owner r'UM), 11 has •inc* been «old in a Mora wan town for £1 13b. The seller has disappcaad. UUKEARBITRATIUN. Xew York, February 2«. | The American Senate has ratified with France agreeing to submit all dispute* to arbitration. !

CHABOES OF ESPIo.VAUE. Paris, Fehruarv 2DSeveral documents relating to the ekarges against Lieutenant Umo of selling plans to Germany were stolen front his annuel'* room;' at a Toulon hotel. A public trial of tbe lieutenant b proceeding.

MOTORING RECORDS. New York, Fehruarv 30. A Napier motor ear established new "torts for fifty miles, on* hundred miles, and one hundred and fiftv miles on the Brooklyn trick. The average speed over the whole dhtancc was 85 miles an hoar.

THE "AMERICAN FLEET. San Franeiso, Febniarv 20. Admiral Evans' fleet has arrived at Cauao.

railway workers' responst mutt.

, New York, February 20. President Roosevelt has written to the Interstate Commerce Commissioner ahoot the importance of limiting the hours of work of railway employee-, on aeeoitnt of the bearr reopogifbilrir restl»)t on them. A DESPERADO'S CRIME. Madrid, February 20. A maaked man entered the Town Council meeting at Dahnel, in Spain, and shot tbe Mayor dead. The murtorr neaped. W» deed it attributed to motives of political revenge. A MODERN BLUEBEARD. New York. February *). The Xew York police declare that the German Jew Hyne, who was sentenced to imprisonment in England for defraud tag one of his many wive*, is a dentist named Witzhoff, a notorious polygamist who swindled many women.

HEAVY" FINANCIAL CEASH London, Febrnarr 20. 'At the lint meeting of creditors of WhseoU. Cooper and Companr, held at the Bankruptcy Court, the official re eeiver ««ld he estimated the unsecured liabilities at EIOO/MO. In addition. there were contingent debts in connection with the Anglo-Argentine Shipping Company, amounting to £2fifljm The awet» only amounted to eiß.22fi. The meeting resolved to wind up in l>ankraptey.

A FENIAN'S DEATH. London, February 20. Colonel Thomas F. Kelly, the' noted Fenian, is dead. JAPANESE IV CANADA. Ottawa, Febrtiarv 20. The Canadian Premier, Sir Wilfrid Lanrier. ha' ordered tne release of two Japanese who were senteneed to twelve months' imprisonment in Briti-h Colnmbis.

THIEVES SENTENCED. London, February SO.

The thieve* who stole the Qn'enV mlniatnre portraits hare been senteneed to terms of imprisonment ranging from Iwrtre month* to tw*ntv-three month?.

SOtTR AFRICAN fiARRTPONS London. Febroarr ?fl

Tt Jt stated that th» TTon. Tt. B. TTalihne. Seerefarr for War. i- red>icinr» the fr»rrf«on forees in Sonth Vfriea from MJ3A n-»n »« l».onn.