GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 268, 20 December 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

vv. AND A. McAKTHUB ESTATE. By Cablfr—Press tkiDYrii it Received 111, 5.5 £ju. it .ft • December 18. .Mr. \v hniney, liquidator of \V. ud A. MeArthur'a, reports that Australian ' creditors ior £70,000 huve been ednit- * ted to rank for dividends. He bopes< early iii February to pay a substantial cash dividend to creditor* holding • certificate. ° AN UNFORTUNATE ENDING. London, December 17. An engagement of marriage wag i B .. tered into between the Hon. Archill,t.ti Gordon, third son of the Earl of Abvdeen, and Miss AsquTth, daughter of tU Premier, shortly before the Hon. Gordons fatal accident. VALUABLE BEQUEST TO THE NATION. , , , Condon, December 17* f I Ucorgfl Salting's coll*, won of art objects, valued at tun »«,ti

I . T«r# -• vamea at two amsh ,« half million pounds, has been W | qucathed to tno nation, [The late Mr. Salting spent aauiallv on art objecl, £30,000, which fe derive,l,an' BU B ar . A pILAVRAITH memorial. ti,„ ™ 1 , London, December Jr. luc puk* of Marlborough unreHed Vi « over the bed endow , t I\V lady Mcllwraith, at th* ITrw i nought Ilospital, Greenwich, in mew of her husband. The Hon. Sir Tozer, Agent-General fw Queens' lr ,l ' "'" rod "'»» deceased had estmV j s - n such a system of local governor i., Queensland as had never been 'seen in «»}' part of the Empire, Men m GENERAL BOTHA. m , « Capetown, Bmoi iber 17. General Botha, Prea&r of «\he Tramvital, has had a sertoos recur* enee of an p'oioCatr *** ° rdwed 4 NATIOXALTRATTOX fit fißAiv ELEVATORS. ti ,■ Ottawa, De cember'l7. The nationalisation t>f i ,11 the jrr>i» 111 Manitoba i H j mnounced in Accordance ivuii ttio dea mand of the gram grower*.