GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 222, 18 March 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

A SPENDTHRIFT SON. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m. London, March 16. Derrick Wernher, the eldest son of Sir Julius 'Wcrnher, lias been declared bankrupt. His liabilities since he left Oxford in June, lflOO, total £85,000. The father paid £25.000 of his university debts and then advertised that he would be 110 longer responsible. THE COURTHOUSE FIGHT. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m. Xew York, March 10. Two outlaws involved in the Hillsville courthouse fight have been captured. A woman injured in the fight has succumbed. DREAM AVERTS DISASTER. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m. Xew York, March 16. A ir.reT.an on u railway section at Atlanta dreamed that a bridge had collapsed. On awakening he discovered that it was really wrecked. He at once gave warning and saved an approching train. DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN TRADE. Received March 17, 5.3 p.m. Washington, March 10. President Taft is initiating a movement for the formation of a national board of trade,-, with a view to the greater development of trade. A MANIAC'S CRIME. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m. ■St. Petersburg, March 16. A mad peasant at Shinkurst decapitated his wife and seven children with an axe. ANOTHER HANDSOME GIFT TO INDIA. Received 'March 17, 5.5 p.m. Bombay, March 16. Sir Jacob Sassoon, who has presented three lakhs of rupees to the Government t>f India, has offered three lakhs more to erect a pavilion on Apollo Bunder to commemorate King George landing. [A lakh of rupees is 100,000 supees, The value of the gift is therefore approximately £10,000.] CARUSO CENSURED. Received March 17, 5.5 >p.m. Rome, March 16. Eliza Ganelli, a shop girl, who instituted a suit for £IO,OOO for breach of promise against Caruso, the famous tenor, has lost her case, on the ground that her honor remained intact. The Court censured Caruso's conduct and ordered him to pay the costs. M. CHARIKOFFS SUCCESSOR. Received 18, 1.5 a.m. St. Petersburg, March 17. Mods De Giers, at present Russian Ambassador at Vienna, succeeds M. Charikoff as Ambassador at Constantinople. DISASTROUS MINING EXPLOSION. Received 18, 1.5 a.m. | St. Petersburg, March 17. By an explosion at the Donetz Company's mine at Italianka fifty were | killed.