GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 325, 26 February 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. By CaTJle. —Press Association. —Copyright London, February 24. Prince Henry of Prussia received a deputation of the Anglo-German Friendship Committee, including the Duke of Argyle, Lord Avebury, Lord Lonsdale, and Lord Courtney. Replying to the deputation. Prince Henry reciprocated their sentiments of friendship and expressed the Kaiser's gratification at the committee's aims. TRANSATLANTIC CABLE. Received February 25.. 10.45 p.m. London, February 25. The Commercial Cable Company is laying another trans-Atlantic cable. THE CHARLESWORTH FRAUDS. London, February 24. Mr. Justice Darling,' in passing sen-, tence on the Charlesworths, said the evidence showed that Mrs. Charles worth invented the story of Violet's fortune and inoculated Violet with the idea »» a young girl, whicli Violet ingeniously developed by fraud upon fraud. The mother's defence was that she always believed her daughter's story. SOCIALIST PAPER IN TROUBLE. Paris, February 24. Gustave Herve has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for publishing in the Guerre Sociale a glorification of the Apache who murdered a Paris policeman. i ' R.OYASL COURTESIES; St. Petersburg, February 24. The King and Queen of Bulgaria have arrived im St. Petersburg on a visit to the Czar. ! ANOTHER COMET. 1 Berne, February 24. ( The Geneva Observatory has located a new comet quite near Halley's. ( • A NEW REVENUE RAISER. I

Paris, February 24. The Minister of Finance is imposing ii 10 per cent, tax on admissions to race meetings. The tax will produce £50,000 yearly. A CONTRADICTION. Constantinople. February 24. Abdul, the ex-Sultan is hi good health. | His three daughters were brought to Constantinople to be married. QUACKERY DENOUNCED. London. February 24. The Master of the Rolls, in dismissing the appeal of Dr. Rrodie, bloodless surgeon, against an award of £IOOO damages, described him as a swindler and an ignorant, unscrupulous quack, A THEATRE ON FIRE. Lima, February 24. A theatre at Tnixillo. in Peril, took fire during a cinematograph performance. The audience became -panicstricken and fifty perished in the flames.