GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 26, 24 February 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

AN AUSTRALIAN FORGER. Received February 23, 10.5 p.m. : London, February 23. ' Duncan Johnston was again remanded on a further charge that he uttered and forged an endorsement on a cheque for £550 at Sydney.

SOUTH AFRICAN UNIFICATION. Capetown, February 22. The Stelkabosch branch of the South 'African Bond has approved of the Constitution and has described the Capetown branch's resolution as calculated to lead to undesirable Mentions and alienation, and possibly to prove injurious to the colony.

MJP. IX DISGRACE. London, February 22. Pete Curran, Labor member for Jartow, was, fined) 10s for drunkenness in |he streets of London.

A DIVORCE PETITION. ' London, February 22. The Edinburgh Counts have refused ftho divorce petition of Mrs. Bel™' darbj formerly Margaret Louisa Ten nant Cr ammo ml, of Edinburgh. Th petitioner inherited £BO,OOO from her father, an Australian squatter. iALCBGED SHORT-WEIGHT COAL. London, February 22. The British Chamber of Shipping has decided to investigate complaints asto short weight of coal shipped at Newcastle, New South Wales. The losses roughly «e said to he 4 per cent. aOHAEIAK OFFENCES IN IRELAND. London, February 22. The Eight Hon. Augustus Birrel, Chief Secretary for Ireland, m reply to Mr J P. Ijonsdale, Conservative for Armagh Md, said that 57 agrarian offences were eomm,tted u Ireland in 1908 and 372 in 190 i.