GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 113, 4 May 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A NEW AUSTRALIAN STEAMER. / London. May 1. Howard Smith's 3000-ton steamer Rur. wah. for /the Sydney - Rockha mpton trade, has been launched at Sunderland. LIVERPOOL'S NEW DOCKS. London, May 1. ] The Liverpool harlior authorities will shortly liegin the construction of the Gladstone docks to the northward of Hornby dock. The new docks will cost i £3400,000. FRENCH ENTRAPPED BY MOORS. Paris, May 1. A large party of Moore ambushed and massacred two French sergeants and sereral titalleun near AjachsUg. in Senegal. A GESMAN BLUEBEARD. Berlin. May 1. Coeh. a hasketmaker living at Groosromste.lt. Saxwcilmar, has been arrested and charged with having murdered hi« wife. He is alleged to have burned her body. It is suspected that Coch similarly murdered two previous wives as well as three housekeepers and his son. KNOLTBH WEATHER. London, May 2. floods bare almost isolated Maidenhead, Eton, and other places. A heat ware has succeeded the wintrv weather. FORGERY OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. London. May 1. In connection with an extensive forgery of French rente coupons, Hill, a counterfeiter and distributing agent in London, has been arrested. Miller, an agent in Germany, has also been arreted at Wehhaden.