GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 4, 29 January 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A SIBERIAN INCIDENT. 1 Berlin, January 27. Liberia has apologised to Germany in respect of the Woeriminii liner incident anil has promised to puiibh tin. offenders further. ' EUROPE'S OLIVE CROP. London, January 2S. The failure of the olive crops r.i France, Spain and Italy has causei olive oil to rise 4(1 per cent. A tlier advance is probable. WOMEN'S RIGHTS. London, January 27. At a conference of the Women s Ixibor League at Portsmouth, some speakers advocated the. State provision for a mother, four months before childbirth and a year afterwards. Others advocated tlic total prohibition of maTried women working loi a living. GUBERNATORIAL TRANSFER. London, January 27. The Daily Hail states that Sir Gerald Strickland,'Governor of Tasmania, is to succeed Admiral Sir Ham- Rawsoii as Governor of New South Wales.

SENTENCED FOJI FRAUD. London. January 27. Henry Hess, at the Old Bailey. received four rtmciirrent sl '" t ™'':V ' f • twelve months, in the second the Court, for fraud in connection u ■ the Commonwealth Consolidated, j cd. His offences included nusapprop - nting £1428 hy falsely stating tl. t < £IO,OOO belonging to the c-omp.i-nA . in the bank and that another was in the hands of an unnamed ftrm. The iurv recommended leniency m v cf his previous unblemished cliaractei. royaltTmovements. TiOiidon, .Tinnnvy -< Kins Edward and Queei Alex* ndria a-e to visit the Oueeii of Spain at \ 111.1 at the end of February. ANARCHIST* IX LONDON. London, January 27.

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