GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 198, 19 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

INDIAN CONSPIRATOR;.. ,:NTENCED Bj Cable—Press Association—Copyright Madras, February IG. Nelakanta and eight others have been sentenced to carying terms from a year to seven years in connection with the conspiracy at Tinnevally, which resulted in the murder of Mr. Ashe, a British Collector, in June last.

, DISHONEST EMIGRATION AGENT. London, February IG. G. 11. Brown, an emigration agent, charged with obtaining money by false pretences, has been convicted and sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

STOLEN BOOKS RETURNED. London, February 16. Dealers in London have returned fifty valuable books which had disappeared from the Peterborough Cathedral Library.

A DARING ROBBERY. Paris, February IG. Thieves threw a bomb into a jeweller's shop at Boulogne-sur-Seine, scattering the stock into the roadway. They secured a quantity of jewels and escaped after firing at the police.

EXCESSIVE THEATRE TAXES. Madrid, February 16. Managers, actors and authors have decided to close theatres until the excessive theatre taxes are reduced.

BANK MESSENGER ROBBED. New York, February 16. Three men sprang on a taxi-cab which was conveying money from the East River branch of the National Bank to another bank. Two belabored the messengers' heads until they were partly unconscious, and the third, covering the chaffeur with a revolver, secured £3OOO and escaped.

A TRAIN DERAILED. Ottawa, February 16. Nine passenger cars of the TransContinental express were derailed owing to the intense cold spreading the rails. The passengers miraculously escaped u»hurt.

EIGHT HOURS DAY. London, February 10. Mr. Churchill, when receiving a deputation, said that nothing would give the Admiralty greater pleasure than to see an eight hours working day maintained at the Thames Shipbuilding Works, and he would gladly do his utmost to secure its maintenance. i ■ l

THE CRYSTAL PALACE. t London, February 10. Earl Grey presided at a banquet at the Savoy Hotel to congratulate the Earl of Greymouth in connection with having acquired the Crystal Palace for the nation. Earl Grey announced that that donor offered £50,000 towards the £220,000 required.

GOLD EXAMINER ON TRIAL.

Capetown, February 16. Penterick, examiner of the East Rand Mine, has been committed for trial for misstating the amount of gold recovered during the first half of 1911, and also for stating that 4700 ounces were derived from milling, whereas they were derived from cyaniding.

THE DELHI WRECK. London, February 16. The captain of the Delhi emphatically denied that the lookout man reported white lights between one o'clock and the time of stranding.