GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 237, 30 September 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A (UUGF, IUICtiUIiST. i JV'cei.ved 30, 10.5(J p.m. 'Berlin, September 29. llerr |Sanipson, formerly a, banker a,t i Berlin, bequeathed a, million aiul a-hali i sterling to the Academy of Science •here. , OIIUANISED iiUIKJLAKY. London, Septemlicr 28. A statement made by the convict John F. Spencer led to the arrest ai Leicester of several persons ■incriminated in burglaries on a large scale, the proceeds of which were handed to receivers in London in the course of a fmv hours. SEDITION IN INDIA. Calcutta, September 28. The newspaper Pioneer recently stilted that the Nationalist leader' Tilak, who was sentenced to transportation' for publishing seditious articles, was .to bo imprisoned instead in some place outside the Madras Presidency. This paipcr now savs the commutation of the sentence was due to pressure from the Home Government. ENGLISH RAILWAY COMIiTNH. London. September 2R. The working arrangements amongst the leading railways anil the depression of trade have led the Great Wostom Company to close forty stations on Sundays ami to discharge nianv hands. Tim Midland and London and NortjiWestern Companies have made similar reductions.