GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 5, 30 January 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

'i ILLEGAL GOLD-BUYING. Received 29, 11.55 p.m. Melbourne, January 29. ■ W. G. Asninan, a leading business ■man in Bendigo, was sentenced to six ■weeks' imprisonment for illegal fjoldImying. Two others were sentenced to four mouths' for a similar offence.

EMPEROR OF CHINA. Received 29, 11.10 p.m. London, January 29. Ollicial circles in Pekin state that the Emperor's health does not cause anxiety.

. WORKING OF FOREIGN PATENTS. Received 29, 11.11 l p.m. London, January 29. A volunteer organisation is forming ■in London to secure the revocation of foreign patent» unless adequately worked here.

A ITRKISII AIM'OIXTMEXT. Received ■>». !).,)0 p.m. Constantinople, .lunuurv 2!l. • Nouri Hey ! UIS * nm . nM Ashmi'd Monkhlor Pasha as Turkish High Commissioner of Egypt. u„. hitter liavincr rosigued.

Mlf. WATSON WARMLY WELCOMED deceived 'ill, il.;,(l |,.i„ .loliaiiiiesluu-jr, .lamia'.- -ill Prominent Australians and . V, ~ of the U.or I'anv al -1,.1, warmly welcomed j|,-. Wntsin, , . P cinier of the Commonwealth.

MYSTERIOUS EARTHQUAKE. San I'raiiiisiii, .lanunrv -'B. I'.viraordinary wave* rose oi, the eoast ol Califorai,, and llritish Cohimliia. I hey <ii]i|n>rt the theory Ilia'., the V'al "I the inysteri„„» oaithmtakc. is in the I'acHic (leean.

REQUEST Til ('HAI.iTTKS-. Loiiduo, .liiuiiarv iiS. Mr. Josinli Vavasour, one of the director* of Armstrong aa.l Whitworlh. mil. ot an estate of C3l I.Tl'i, bequeathed to Miiirilica—wilh ;1 rc-idue for the same purpose- ilic -inn „f cI,">0.000.

AX ENCI.ISII TOIWXfIA. London. January 2S. Bishop Kimiion has nnlv deprived the ■Rev. Smyth Pigolt, of the "Almde of Love." of his charge. His lordship did •not. unfrock him.