GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LO.NDOX .MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATE. London, May 6. The late H. L. Bischoffscheim, a London financier and philanthropist, left, in addition to much settled property, personality valued at £1,573,000. MONTE CARLO MURDER VICTIM. London, May 0. The girl Giraudin, niece of the Goolds who perpetrated the Monte Carlo murder, has died at Monaco Hospital of a decline brought on by her grief at the crime. CHINESE E.UI'ISKOU'S MARRIAGE LINES. Berlin, May 6. The Kaiser ban ordered the prosecution of a German oilicer suspected of complicity in the theft of the Emperor of China's marriage lines. [The marriage lines disappeared from the Imperial palace at I'ekin when the allied armies 'were there some yeara ago. They were found in a German village recently.] UNITED STATES AND CANADA. New York, May U. The United States Senate has ratified a treaty providing for the appointment of a joint Commission to examine the result of recent surveys and fix the frontier line between Canada and the United States. END OF AN EVENTFUL CAREER. Melbourne, May 0. Dr. Home, of Traralgon, has succumbed to injuries received in a motor accident. He had had an eventful carter. He enlisted in the Cameron Scouts for the Boer war. There he wai shot through the lungs, but he made a remarkable recovery. Subsequently he went to China, where he was attacked by bandite and severely wounded. The Chinese Government paid him £IOOO compensation. TIMES LIBEL ACTION. London, May 6., I The action ol John Murray, the publisher, against The Times began before Mr. Justice Darling and a special jury in the ICing's Bench Division. Plaintiff claims damagee for alleged libel contained in letters signed "Artifix," the first of which appeared on 19th October, dealing with the cost of producing the letters of Queen Victoria. Mr. Murray, in his evidence,, gave details of the enormous cost of producing the book. He stated that on the first edition of 10,000 copies his profit had been 2s 3%d per copy.

BROKEN HILL MIMES. London, May 8. The British Broken Hill Company's profit for the year was £46,701. Tha directors recommend that no dividend be paid, as it is essential that the company's financial strength be maintained to meet the requirements of the new plant and the expenses of maintenance and development and contributions to the water-supply scheme. Till-; PACIFIC CABLE, ■ London, May 6. [ In the House of Commons, LieutColonel Seeley, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, replying to Lieut. Bellairs, seSd the estimated loss on the Pacific cable for the current year was £09,000. The Imperial Government did not propose to consider the relaying of the line in. order to touch Honolulu unless the colonial partners suggested it at the annual meeting.

DUMPING GUNS IN THE COLONIES. London, May 6. Members of the Birmingham gun trade are making strong complaints respecting the importation to Australasia of one thousand Belgian guns branded with colorable imitations of the namc3 of British makers. It is also stated that Americans are dumping guns in the colonies without the proof mark. STAR OF JAPAN WRECK. London, May 6. Lloyd's report that it is impossible to salv,. the Star of Japan, The bull has already partially broken up.

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