GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 119, 10 November 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

EUN OX A BANK. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright I London, November 8. / A run occurred on several brandies of 1 the National Penny Bank, but all demands were met. ARTIST GETS FOURTEEN YEARS.' London. November 8. De Vene, an artist, who threatened the police with a loaded revolver on October 10, has been sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude for using firearms against the police. CRYSTAL PALACE SOLD. London, November 8. It is reported that a syndicate, headed by the Earl of Plymouth, has purchased the Crystal Palace for £220,000. FRAUDULENT APPROPRIATION. Colombo, November 8. Williams, manager of DadweH and Co., has been arrested on charges of the fraudulent appropriation of £44,592, said to have been lost in rubber speculations. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE London, November 8. Mr. Ailwyn Fellowes will preside over the departmental committee of inquiry into., the .recent outbreak of. foot "and mouth disease. ■SIXTY KAFFIRS ENTOMBED. Johannesburg,' November 8. A fall of rock in the Primrose Mine 1 killed a European and entombed sixty natives. THE NOBEL PRIZES. Stockholm, November 8. The Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Madame Curie; that ' for physics to Professor Wilselm Wien, t>f Wurt/.burg.