GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 142, 24 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LEVER BROTHERS. By Caole.—Press Association.—Copyright London, September 22. Messrs. Lever Brothers, the soap manufacturers, are increasing their capital to £14,000,000 by the issue of £5,000,000 new preference shares. BOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. London, September 22. The sixteen-year-old son of Annie S. Swan, the well-known writer, was examining his father's gun, when it exploded and killed him. He was at Rugby School, and was ( at home at Hertford for the holidays.'

THE 1915 EXHIBITION. London, September 22. The Lord Mayor of London will preside at a meeting at the Mansion House at the end of October to consider a guarantee fund for the proposed exhibition of 1915.

ALLUVIAL GOLD. Ottawa, September 22. A placer gold discovery at Goat River, in the Kootenay district, British Columbia, is causing a rush. A HOTEL RAIDED. Vancouver, September 22. Bandits raided a hotel iu Seattle and forced the occupants to give up their money at the point of the revolver. THE JUTE CROP. London, September 22. The Indian Government's final estimate of the jute crop is 932,790 bales below that of last year. Prices- in London have declined 355. COAL MNiE ACCIDENT. London, September 22. The cage at Ferndal Colliery, South Wales, fell 300 ft., killing one man and severely injuring eleven. MANCHESTER ART GALLERY. London, September 22. The Corporation of Manchester it. erecting an art gallerv and library to cost £250,000 on the site of the old infirmary purchased for £400,000. SOCIALISTS' CONGRESS. Berlin, September 22. The Socialists' Congress at Magdeburg decided to expel the Baden revisionists and opportunists if they continue to support the State budgets.