GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 92, 9 October 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A CLERK'S EMBEZZLEMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, October 6. Le Preux, who lias for thirty years been in tin; employment of the Suez Canal Company, has absconded. He embezzled £40,000 and .speculated on the Bourse, hoping to make a fortune for his daughter. CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN'S EXPEDITION. Buenos Ayres, October 6. The Antarctic ship Fram has left for Whale Bay, whence it will take Captain Amundsen to Half-Moon Bay or Lyttelton. ACTRESS LEAVES A DUSKY PRINCE. London, October G. Miss Ola Humphrey, the actress, has left Prince Hassan, the Egyptian whom she recently married, owing to incompatibility of temperament.

PROHIBITION REPEALED IN MAINE. New York, October 6*.

The State of Maine has repealed proThe issue was for a long tim • in doubt. METHODIST CHURCH IN AMERICA. New York, October 6. The Ecumenical Methodist Convention at Toronto shows a striking decrease in the growth of Methodism throughout the Western portion of the United States. THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE. London. October 0. The Colonial Institute has formed an Australian and New Zealand section. ALLEGED GERMAN SPY ARRESTED. London, October 6. Karl Karmer, a German, has been arrested at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. FIRM'S HUGE LIABILITIES. London, October 0. The bankruptcy meeting in connection with the affairs of Edward and Arthur Helling, discount brokers, or Nicholas Line, showed liabilities to be £925,000 and assets £30,722, A VESSEL FOUNDERS. Monte Video, October 0. The Sofala, bound to Svdney, sprang a leak and foundered. The crew have landed.

BURIAL OF THE LIBERIE VICTIMS.

Paris, October 0. Seventy unidentified victims of the Liberte disaster have been buried. BIG FIRE AT LEICESTER. London, October 0. A fire at Leicester destroyed St. George's Church and six-storcved factories covering 320 ft. by 300 ft. tlu- church was crowded for a harvest thanksgiving, but the congregation dispersed with no panic