GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 210, 9 October 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

COUNTERFEIT BANKNOTES. By Cable.—Press Association.--Copyright London, October 8. Counterfeit Bank of England livepound notes are reudiing London from Russia, where AIiI.OUU have been cashed. JAPANESE ART. Tokio, October 7. The Japanese (iovermnent lias decided to risk scudiug the llncst sculptures and paintimfs Irani tiie old temples to the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition. LATE PRIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. London, Oetober 7. Tile will of Dr. W. Sauinarea-Smith, late Primate of Australia, has been sworn at £10,013, of which estate Britain represents £14,183. Under the will the property has been left to deceased's children in equal shares. The late Primate of Australia in his will states that during his lifetime lie devoted as amich income as he could all'ord to charitable objects, and therefore makes no bequests in that direction.

AN AMBASSADOR'S INDISCRETION, i London, October 7. The Government of the Dominion of Canada has reprimanded Mr. Darns, Commissioner at Yokohama for making insinuations m a letter on Japanese commercial morality. It lias also assured Tokio that it has no official knowdodge of the Commissioner's indiscretion..

AN ANCIENT HOUSE RESTORED.

London, October 7 Through "Mario Corelli's instrumentality, the ancient house at Stratford-Oil-Avon associated with John Harvard's mother, lias been pnrehased ■ by Americans and restored in evvrv detail Tt was opened liv the Hon. Wliitelmv Reid, American Ambassador in EiHand. (Harvard Col toy,, in America derived its name from Join, Harvard, who be'A'riS 1 )" ,ld " rl 'i tTTII in A PREHISTORIC SKIJJCTOX. London, October 7. A prehistoric skeleton wav found in posl-tertiarv rocks at Dordosrue, in France, dating bnck twentv thousand years. ' I