GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 332, 20 June 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

EARTHQUAKE IN ASIA. I liy cable.—Press Association.—Copyright London, June 18. The West iiromwicll seismograph recorded a broken record of a shock late on Thursday, which is supposed to indicate an earthquake in Eastern Asia. , THE BIRKBFjCK BANK. London, June 18. The London County and Westminster Bank has acquired from the official receiver the Birkbeck Bank's banking premises and the assets of the bank's business comprising advances on security. A MISUNDERSTANDING. Berlin, June Hi. The State Department has been informed that ex-President Castro, of Venezuela, is not in Hayti. The misunderstanding arose through a joking remark by the captain of the German steamer. PROTECTING THE TIN MARKET. London, June 18. Messrs Vivian, Younger and Co. report that whatever is possible will be done to protect the tin market from the results of any further conspiracy, and measures will be taken to restore confidence. The authorities are alive to the situation. AN INDIAN OFFICIAL SHOT. Calcutta, June 18. A Brahmin attorney fatally shot with a revolver Mr. Ashe, the collector, who conducted the trial of the Tutikorin rioters. The' Brahmin subsequently committed suicide. HOOLEY IN DIFFICULTIES. London, June 18. A receiving order has been made i against Ernest Terah Hooley at the instance of the London Trading and Banking Co., Ltd., for £3322. TERRIFIC THUNDERSTORMS. London, June 18. There have been terrific thunder-storms in Lancashire. Hailstones an inch in diameter fell at Haslingden. One person was killed by lightning at Aceringto». |

A BIGAMIST'S CORRESPONDENCE. London, June 18. George William Lucia, alias Lake, has been committed for trial on a charge of bigamy, Two thousand seven hundred letters were found (it his lodgings, and show that some women a-dvanced him monejr. EX-POLICEMAN'S ACT. London, June 18. An ex-police inspector has been remanded at Bow-street on a charge of having -sent Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald a letter wherein he threatened to make an attack in public on the person of Mr. Churchill, and also sending a letter threatening to kill Subdivisional Inspector Reed, against whom he had an old grievance.