GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 340, 16 March 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. By Cable.—Prm>s Association. —Copyright London, March 14. Mr Middleton, on behalf of the Moderates, proposed to hold a conference •with the Progressives' with the object of ridding the London County Council of party government. The Progressives have declined to hold the conferenc , and the Moderates have decided to seiect all the ten aldermen. FRENCH PENSIONS. Paris, March 14. The French Senate decided that only earners receiving less than £l2O per annum shall be eligible, for pensions. The Government had proposes to make the limit £l6O. IWHIST DRIVES. London, March 14. The police have stopped the weekly whist drives which it was the custom to hold in city restaurants on Saturday night. Hundreds of players were disappointed last Saturday.

A DISAPPOINTED DOCTOR. New York, March 14. Dr Benson, aged 73, and his' aged f>7, swallowed poison at a breakfast table in a Philadelphia hotel, and died Immediately. They were disappointed owing to failure to win a <prize of £40,000 offered by the French Aeademv of Medicine for a cure for tuberculosis. LADY DUDLEY. London, March 14. Lady Dudley passed a good night and is progressing satisfactorily. A GAY ROGUE. London, March .14. A Router's telegram states that it is one Martin Gautier, not Martin, assistant of Duez, the defaulting liquidator who has been arrested. He had a luxurious suite of rooms l in a deserted Parisician convent, where orgies were held nightly till the neighbours complained. Guiltier kept five separate establishments in the city under assumed names.,