GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 61, 30 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A CIVIC SCANDAL. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. New York, July 28. A civic scandal lias taken place at Detroit. Five aldermen have confessed to receiving bribes for votes favoring a, measure granting a concession to the Wabash railroad. Other arrests of civic officials are expected. MARRIED IN" MID-AIR. New York, July 28. A feature of the balloon race at Kansas City to decide the contestants in the international contest in Germany was the marriage in mid-air of Dr. Hartman and Miss Violet Davis, a wellknown society couple. CANADIAN RECIPROCITY. Washington, July 28. The Senate passed the Canadian reciprocity measure and adopted the Sugar Bill, cutting down the duty by thirty cents and abolishing the duty on the sugar known as "refined differential." ; The Democrats united with the Progressives in the House of Representatives in passing the Democratic Excise Tax Bill, to which was attached an amendment providing for the repeal of the .Canadian reciprocity provision. The printing paper tax, abolished when reciprocity was adopted, is re-established. An amendment providing for a nonpartisan Tariff Commission to replace the Taft Tariff Board was also adopted. A VAGRANT SHELL. ! London, July 28. During a night attack off Spithead by destroyers, in connection with the mobilisation of the Portsmouth garrison,, a shell whizzed past Haslar Hospital, instead of being aimed at the moving targets accompanying the warships, ' and embedded itself in the hospital lawn without exploding. An inquiry has been opened. A LEGACY DUTY PROTEST. London, July 28. Sir Edward Sassoon left no bequest to charities, firstly, because lie gave during his lifetime according to his means}, and, secondly, because he protested against the impolitic and prohibitive legacy duty on charitable bequests.

SEA PENSIONS. London, July 28. Lord Furness, at a meeting of Furnegs, Withy and Company at Hartlepool, proposed an amalgamation with his pension fund for old Hartlepool seamen, to which ■ he lias given £20,,000. He proposed a wider .scheme for training boys under expert tutors preliminary to their entering the company's service as apprentices on steamships. He urged the company to vote £IO,OOO towards this, he himseif contributing £IO,OOO. He considered it a serious reflection that so few national facilities were given for sea training A FRAUDULENT SHAKE DEALER. London, July 28. Edward Donallen, share dealer, who was previously sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment for a similar , bucket shop fraud, has beeu sentenced at the Old Bailey to two years' imprisonment for swindling wealthy people in Germany out of £20,000. Eugene Beck, an accomplice, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. CUSTOMS STATISTICS. | Paris, July 28. An International Congress wilt meet in Paris in May, 1013, to promote an international statistical customs bureau and new rules regarding commercial travellers and samples,- exemption, from duties on goods sent on approval, and a uniform definition of gross and net weight for the computation of duties. ! "" 1