GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 52, 19 July 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

| SI'VAN LAND TROUBLES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received 18, 8.45 p.m. Suva. July IS. The charges against the natives concerned in the recent land disturbances have been adjourned. A commission is to inquire into them. THE TAYLOR ART COLLECTION. Received IS, 11.45 p.m. London, July 18. At the sale of the Taylor art collection a grand total of £358,499 was realised. RICH GOLD DISCOVERY 7 . Received 18, 11.45 p.m. Capetown, July 18. The Daily Mail's Capetown correspondent reports that a gold-bearing reef thirty feet in height, running towards Signal Ilill, has been discovered in some excavations for the Capetowu I docks. NATIONAL TELEPHONE LOAN. Received 18, 11.45 p.m. London, July 18. In connection with the interim award of the National Telephone Arbitration the Exchequer has issued four million 3 per cents, at 93'/., redeemable in 18 years. No specific sinking fund is provided. The banks have taken three and a half millions and the market the balance. REBATES ABOLISHED. ' Received 18, 11.45 p.m. London, July 18. The South African mail contract abolishes rebates. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Received 18, 11.45 p.m. London, July 18. There has been a fresh outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Swords, in Ireland. A MAGNIFICENT BEQUEST. Received 19, 12.30 a.m. London, July IS. The estate of Charles lirinsley Marlay, of Westmeatli,, has been sworn at £SOOXOO. He bequeathed £80.00!) and ■ Irs art collect ion to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. MURDER AND SUICiDE. Received 18, 8.53 p.m. Sydney, July IS. The verdict at the inquest on the i Cahibah tragedy wa.s that Keetia.u mur- • dered his wife and then committed sui--1 cide. The evidence did not disclose any t motive. The pair were on good terms. The husband suffered from pains i,i the head. A FATAL FIRE. Received 18, 8.53 p.m. Melbourne, July IS. A house was burned down at Dunnstown and Mrs. Clarke and an infant ; perished in the flames.