GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 164, 20 October 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

CHARING CROSS BANK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, October 18. i Many investors in the West Ridiny of Yorkshire have been hard hit by the failure of the Charing Cross Bank. Leeds depositors alone represent £33,000.

A BANK'S OPERATIONS. London, October 18. The English. Scottish and Australian Bank shows a profit of £204,213, j interest on perpetual stocks amounted to £100,202, added to reserve £18,095, cancellation of deferred deposits £10 : 7S8, premises £IO,OOO, officers' fund £IOOO. Deposits on current account amount to £4.087,119, cash and investments £1,080,024, bills £1,058,829, advances £5,301,190 A NURSE KIDNAPPER. London, October 18. A nurse named Ingles, who was arrested at Birmingham in June for kidnapping and deserting her employer's child, and stealing jewellery, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. THEFT OF SACCHARINE. London, October 18. Four men. have been given sentences from three months' to three years' imprisonment for theft of saccharine at Southwark. EXPLOSION IN A MINE.

Berlin, October 18. An explosion of dynamite set fire to the Siegfried Mine at Giessen, in Hesse, and fifteen were killed. A STEAMER LOST. Berlin, October IS. The Hamburg steamer Staleria foundered off Revee, in the Baltic, and the crew of sixteen were drowned.