GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 9 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH TRADE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, November 7. The imports during October inoiiased £1,321,7(12, exports £4,787,07!), and re-exports £13,711,017. THE TAXI-CAB ROBBERY. London, November 7. James Gale, a carman, ,uid George Hayes, a porter, have confessed to the taxi-cab robbery in Edgeware Ro.id. Ihey were remanded with Leslie Gale, a pawnbroker's assistant. MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS London, November 7. Clarke ,a cashier in Protor aid Co.'s office, has been sentenced to throe years' imprisonment for misapproDri.it iii'»'il2t,000. A LIBEL ACTION. London, November 7. Harvey, a Syndicalist, belonging to the Durham Miners' Associa.'ion, was ordered to pay Mr. John Wilson. M.P.. £2OO for libel in a pamphlet s-.igues.tinw that Mr. Wilson was willing to be bribed and was serving the capitalists. A DEFAULTING SECRETARY. London, November 7. Tom Watts, branch secretary of the Dockers' Unions, lias been sentenced at the Old Bailey to six months' imprisonment for embezzlement. A CHINESE REVOLUTION. St. Petersburg, November 7. The Novoe Vremya states tiiai the Chinese at Kobdo were escorted 1.0 Karbit by Cossacks. Meanwhile fix thousand Chinese, are advancing to seize Kobdo. THE ROYAL GEORGE WRECK. Ottawa, November 7. The passengers have been rescued hem the Royal George. The vessel is in onh six feet of water, and is m i).<m#;;r of toppling over. The crew is still aboard. Tugs arc standing by.