GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 156, 30 December 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright.

New York, December 28. Senator La Follette has opened his presidential campaign. He attacked the trusts, and proposed a plan for the formation of a commission to deal with restraints of trade.

NEW AMERICAN SWINDLE. New York, December 28.

A scheme has been discovered for swamping Central America with bad money. Ten millions are reported to have been actually put in circulation. Two Nicaraguan Cabinet Ministers are reported to be implicated. SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE. Sydney, December 29. A Scottish syndicate, headed by a member of the recent Scottish Commission, proposes to take sufficient land in South Australia to have 5000 acres under crop yearly. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY. London, December 28. Horatio Bottomley has filed his petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities arc stated to be £170,000. Proofs have been lodged for £220,700. A STEAMER LOST. London, December 28. The steamer Hughenden, bound from Smyrna for Dublin, foundered in the Ray of Biscay. All the crew excepting two perished. FATAL FISH DIET. Berlin, December 28. Fifty of the paupers poisoned at the municipal shelter have died. A number have fallen dead in the streets. A postmortem examination revealed bacterial poisoning.