GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 182, 23 July 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

' SIEVIER'S TRIAL. London, July 21.

The trial of Robert Sievier on the charge of blackmailing J. B. Joel is proceeding at the Old Bailey Court. Received 22, 9.38 pjn. London, July 22. The grand jury have found a true) hill against Sievier. J

bINIZCLU'S PAY. , Received 22, 11.55 p.m. . , London, July 22. ' Colonel Seely, Under Secretary for the Colonies, stated in the House of Commons that the Imperial Government had decMed to pay Dinizulu's salary-

A RESOURCEFUL WOMAN. London, July 21. While Mrs. Post, wife of a millionaire, was motoring past Monbuck Point, * ship which has just been wrecked was seen there. Mrs Post procured a life-saving rocket, and with its aid saved all who were aboard the vessel, twenty-four in number. MILLIONAIRE MURDERED. Paris, July «1. Remnes, a valet, confessed that ho had helped a butler, Reynard, to kill and rob their master, a Paris millionaire. Both were arrested.

THE SPEED OF MOTORS. London, July 21. Yielding to public agitation, the London County Council is reducing the limit speed of motor omnibuses in the city thoroughfares. ' RETRENCHMENT AT THE CAPE. Capetown, July 21. The Cape Colony Assembly decided by 62 votes to 27 to reduce the salaries of all civil servants by 5 per cent.