GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 16, 12 February 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BEQUESTS TO CHARITIES. Received 11, 0.30 p.m. London, February 11. The trustees of the late James Dick, gutta-percha manufacturer, have allocated £BO,OOO to the Royal Intirmary at Glasgow, besides £250,000 to Glasgow charities. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN SWEDEN. Received 11, 11.10 p.m. Loudon, February 11. The Times' Stockholm correspondent reports that both Chambers voted universal suffrage with proportional representation.

MURDERERS' SENTENCES. Paris, February 10. lieiiard was sentenced to servitude for life and Courtios to twenty years- imprisonment for murdering M. Remy, a hunker at Paris. Two murderers were guillotined at Albi, in the south of France.

TIIK SANTIAGO MURDER. London, February 10. Chancellor Bcckert, not the Herman Chancellor ]!odnin:i, was murdered at Santiago, in Chili. The tragedy ia attributed to the same .gang who burned the German Consulate at Santiago. KING EDWARD'S MUNIFICENCE. ' London, February 10. King Edward has donated a hundred guineas to the Church Anny. [This is a working man'a Church mission to working men. It was founded in 1882, and is directed by a committee acting under the council, among whom are the archbishops and bishops. There aro upwards of 800 trained workers, men and women, constantly at work throughout the metropolis and the provinces.]

I'ERSIAN urfREST. London, February 10. Renter's Teheran correspondent reports that revolutionists at Resht murdered the governor and several officials.

FINANCIAL COMPANV WOUND UP London, February 10. The London and Paris Exchange Com puny has been ordered to be compul sorily wound up. SCULPTURE IN ENGLAND. London, February 10. The Times describes MucKominl'i marble bust of the late Sir YV. 11. tin*. sell as one of tire few thoroughly satisfactory works thai SI. Paul's erv'pt contains, and adds that sculptors generally recognise .\liu-Kc;mal u» one of the men most likely lo further "ihe advance made 'by sculpture in England during (he past twenty years.

WIIiELES TELEdItAPIIY. l.onilon. February 1(1. Tin- Pacific Radio Tclcffinph C'oiii|Kin.i'. with u capital (if £(10,00(1.1ms boon regis. 'tiTcil. It is to provide intorcommunioalion between tlio Pacific Islands. Australia, and Now Zealand.

I i'HE TOTTENHAM TRAfiEDY. London, February 10. llofeld, one of the authors of (ii. Tot I leuhani 'tragedy, is rccover'ne.' \\n, been identified as un assaila. [-, ;v (ilnsjjnw hank oulra'ge. AUSTRALIAN' DESTROYERS. London, February 10. T.'eading shipbuilders on the Admiralty list have been requested by Captain Collias. Commonweal Hi representative in Loudon, to sulimit quotations for dcutroyers by February •>:}.