GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 129, 18 October 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE RUSSIAN ARMY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. St. Petersburg, October 10. The army estimates for next year show a total of £54,558,175, an increase of £5,265,058. DEFAULTING RAILWAY MANAGER. Brussels, October l(i. Wilmart, manager of the Ghent-Ter-neuzen Railway, has disappeared. His frauds, estimated at nearly £2,500,000, have caused widespread ruin in Belgium and France. One Brussels Bank has lost £40,000, the public savings bank £lo,'ooo, and another bank £28,000. A leading stockbroker, who committed suicide, had lost £28,000. Wilmart was well known as a sportsman, and director of many banks and industrial concerns. AN UNFORTUNATE OVERSIGHT. London, October 16. The Edinburgh courts have annulledthe marriage of Edward Sliiels, a •wealthy Londoner, on the ground fchat he had previously married a dressmaker by mutual consent under the Scottish form. Jeanette Polack, his second wife, was awarded £SOOO damages.

SALTPETRE WAREHOUSE BURNED. Paris, October 16. A block of warehouses at Dunkirk, covering ten thousand square metres, and filled with saltpetre, was burned and damage done to the extent of £ SO,OOO. OLD MEN'S HOME BURNED. London, October ,10. The old men's asylum at Quimper was destroyed toy fire and five men were burned to death.

ARCTIC STEAMER WRECKED. London, October 10. The steamer DaghiH has been wrecked off lianin Peninsula, in the Arctic Seas. Her cargo, 1000 tons, was insured in London. WILFUL MURDER. London, October 10. At the coroner's inquest on Flo. Dudley, a pantomime "boy," who was shot in a taxicab by Hopwood, a director of a city company, who afterwards attempted suicide, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Hopwood.

BOTTLE STORES BURNED. ilydncy, October 17. The bottle stores and washing sheds o£ the Brewers' Bottle Association at Ultimo have been destroyed by fire. Tlu> damage is estimated at £SOOO.