GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 89, 11 May 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

™£[£' THE WILLIS CASE. Received 11, 0.42 &,ni. Sydney, May 10. An order has been made calling upoft Willis to appear within throe days to give evidence in the Dailey extortion case.

DEATH OF A NOTJED GERMAN. Received May 10, 10.25 pjn. Berlin, May 10. Obituary: Friedrich Von Holfetcin, con. fidential adviser lo four German Chan tellors.

A BAD INVESTMENT. Received .May 10, 11.58 p.m. London, Mav 10, The cruiser Gladiator cost .{(15,000 to refloat, and ivas sold for £15,125.

FAMOUS ESTATE BOUGHT. Received May 10, 11.58 p, m , London, May 10. Lord Pirrie has purchased Leu. Park, Whittaker Wright's Surrey estate, for £200,000,

PROVIDENT WORK.ME/ Received .May 10, 11.50 , ..n. Berlin, May ID.. Krupp's Savings Bureau shows that the credit balance increased in ten years from .£(1500 to .1280,01(1. Thirty-seven per cent, of the workmen and flfty-nino per cent, of the clerks liave accounts, on which interest is paid to the exteit of five per cent.

A DAYLIGHT Ml'ltDEß. Berlin, May I). Outside a criminal court in Berlin, Maiton, who hud just been sentenced ta three months' imprisonment for assault, shot with a revolver three raitway officials who had been testifying* against him. On e man succumbed to his injuries.

A XAYAIj IXVEXTIOX. J/mdon, May 9. Ailmirnl Sir Percy Scott's invention to electrically direct and control gunnery was tea toil at Portsmouth, It in to be applied for training it group of guns in nr. v direction without cunlayers.

AX AMEER'S CRAZE. ... . Kabul, May 9. llie Ameer of Afghanistan has importvu h'nino motor cur.s nnd onimj&d a Ijondon chauffeur. WOMB KXPMSIOXS. Buenos Ayres, May D. Two tomb explosions injured twenty persons. * * (i» A BIC. REVIEW OP TROOPS, '' London, May i>. Seventy thousand troops ure to take part in llio Press delegates' review at Aldevshot on Jnnn 12. '