GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 127, 7 September 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH RAILWAYS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, September 5. Ordinary dividends of British railways averaged 3.15 per cent., compared with 2.99 per cent, last year. AMNESTY IN MONTENEGRO. Cettinje, September 5. Nicholas, the newly proclaimed King of Montenegro, has granted an amnesty to 52 prisoners, including several exMinisters and others sentenced for a bomb conspiracy. A MILLIONAIRE'S BABY. London, September 5. The baby of the millionaire McLean has arrived at Plymouth, and was put on the train for London with a large number of bodyguards and nurses. PHILATELIC EXHIBITION. Geneva, September 5. A Philatelic Exhibition valued at £200,000 has opened at Berne. King George is an exhibitor. CAMORRISTS SENTENCED. Rome, September 5. Eight members of the Camorra, a secret society, have been sentenced at Naples for burglary to from five to thirteen years' imprisonment with long terms of solitary confinement. A LEAF OUT OF THE COLONIAL BOOK. London, September 5. .Wiltshire .farmers, owning 9000 cows have formed a co-operative milk factory. BANDITS ROB A BANK. St. Petersburg, September 5. Three' bandits at Simferopool, in the Crimea, robbed the representative of the St. Petersburg International Bank of £3OOO. A branch of the same bank at Sinelnikovo was robbed of £6OOO. A MURDERER ESCAPEE. London, September 5. Capellini, an Italian, who was sentenced for murder in Paris, escaped from Devil's Island, in French Guiana. He was deported from the United States and has now been extradited to France, after appearing at Bow Street Magistrate's Court.