GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 4 June 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A MURDEROUS MUIiSELMAX. lteeeived June 3, 10.113 p.m. Naples, June 3. An Albanian Musselinan has been arrested at Port Aria for attempting to assassinate a tireek metropolitan named Monsignor Kassandris, who was wounded in the neck. A SUGAR MERCHANT'S ESTATES. London, June 2. Tilie British estate of Caesar Czarnikow, sugar merchant, is valued at £OOO,OOO. He hae also large estates in the West Indies and Afrieu. CANADIAN LOAN'S. London, June 2. The Hon. W. ,S. Fielding, Minister for Finance. Canada, Ls coming to England to investigate the condition of the money market for the Canadian loans maturing in the near future,

GUARDING THE CZAII. St. Petersburg, June 2. The railway from <St. Petersburg to Poltava has been lined with troops for 1800 miles, on the occasion of the Czar's journey. MODERN DWELLINGS. London, June i. Tile leases of the Duehv of Cornwall estates ill South London arc falling in. The Prince of Wales is erecting selfcontained model llatti for working ipeopte in .place of the old-time slums.

STATU JNSVHAXCK. London. June 2. The eoufereuco of the Nottingham Unity of Oddfellows welcomed the State isisurance, and deprecated its fellow societies for pawing hostile resolutions in the absence of detail* of tlie acheme, The president of tile Heart of Oak also deprecated the attacks on the (JovcrnJment 'proposails', wihiehj h'e believed, 300,000 of its members warmly sup- , ported. Speakers at the conference of Ancient Sheplierd-s at "Worcester expressed similar views. LEOPOLD THE SHKKWD. London, June 2. King Leopold JL of Belgium is selling his works of art by the old masters, including £40,000 "worth by P. V. i Kuibens, tlve eminent Flemish painter,' ■to .prevent the properly going to Princess Louise's on his death. The sales are exciting groat opposition in Belgium. '