GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 208, 1 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

I DUKE OF FIFE'S FUNERAL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, February 28. Influenza prevented Queen Alexandra and Princess Maud attending the funeral of the Duke of Fife. The Primate officiated. Those present included the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and her daughters, Prince Arthur of Connaught and many others. The service was private. NEW PACIFIC CABLES. London, February 28. • The Pacific Cable Board has accepted the tender of the Indiarubber and Guttapercha Telegraph Works Company to construct and lay a cable from the neighborhood of Sydney, probably Bondi, to Auckland, and also to bring the Norfolk Island cable to Auckland instead of Doubtless Bay. It is expected that both will be completed about Christmas. HARLAND AND WOLFF. London, February 28. Messrs. Harland & Wolff, of Belfast, have purchased the London and Glasgow Engineering Company's yard at Govan. AN INCOME TAX CASE. London, February 28. Tho Court of Appeal upheld the deicision in the Income Tax Commissioners' case v. the London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company, that interest earned . abroad, though not remitted to the head office, was taxable as the profits of the company. A JEWELLER ROBBED. Vienna, February 28. Loevi, a jeweller travelling on the Paris express, was robbed of £IO,OOO I worth of pearls and diamonds, which | were fastened inside his pocket.