GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 150, 4 October 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

AN EX-JOCKEY'S DEATH. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, October 2. Loates was suffering for weeks from alcoholic dementia, and was. found dead from a fit. At the inquest a verdict of death .from natural causes was returned. His fortune of £250,000 was due to , Mr. Leopold Rothschild's advice as to his investments. MUSIC HALLS ENTERPRISE. London, October 2. Mr. Oswald Stall withdraws from Moss, Limited, who control a large number of music halls, and intends to start five new halls at a cost oi £350,000. A TRAGIC SUICIDE. Paris, October 2. A Parisian danseuse, who was tenderly attached to the aviator Poillot, who was killed the other day, committed suicide with a revolver at his gravt in Montmarte Cemetery. A MURDERER CAUGHT. Berlin, October 2. Osolewski, a bicycle thief, who was arrested at Leipsic for killing a policeman wiho endeavoured to arrest him, has been identified as a Russian revolutionary. He is accused of being concerned in a bomb plot against a grand duke, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. London, October 2. ■Mr. Harold Harmsworth has offerea Cambridge University £20,000 for a professorship of the English Language and Literature. The Drapers' Company has also offered £23,000 to build a physiological laboratory. BILLIARDS. London, October 2. I Gray, with a score of 4500, defeated Hughes, 2125. Gray's score included breaks of 41S, 471 and 253 unfinished. WALKER THE RUNNER. London, October 2. Walker has sailed for South Africa, where he will run Against Donaldson. Walker wi'l proceed to Australia. MINERS ENTOMBED. New York, October 2. ' In the Mexican mine the 150 miners entombed, are natives and Japanese. The accident was due to an explosion; of gas. | KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. ' London, October 2. | Two donations have been received—one of £50,000 and one of £25,000 — towards the Welsh National Sanatorium, as a memorial to King Edward. SUNLIGHT SOAP. London, October 2. The increase in the capital of Lever and Co., the soap firm, is intended to make the company independent of the ordimyry market for raw material used in soap making.