GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 155, 18 November 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LORD DEN MAN'S EVICTION'. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, London, November 10. The Westminster Gazette, referring to Lord Denman's eviction from Governmwit House, suggests that the New South Wales Government possesses a stunted and impoverished notion of what is due to the King's representative. The whole business was shabby. Sydney might cultivate thinking Imperially. HEAVY EMBEZZLEMENTS. Paris, November 15. Augusten Max, a banker at Rue La Fiette, has confessed to embezzling and losing money belonging to his clients to the extent of £400.000 in speculation' in copper mines and experiments in nickel extraction. RUSSIAN SPY SENTENCED . Berlin. November 15. Kostavitch, the Russian who was arrested on a charge of spying l in Germany, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a fortress. AMUNSDEN IN ENGLAND. London, November 15. Captain Amundsen has arrived. He spends a month in England. BIG GUN DISASTER. London, November 15. A gun burst at Shoeburyness. Fragments were found three miles _ away, j Eighteen persons were injured, six serJ iously. The gun which burst was a 13.5 THE ULSTER COVENANT. London, November 15. Sir Edward C'arson announces that 228,20G men have signed the Ulster Covenant, and 228,009 women. A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Berlin. November 15. Gerhard ITauptmann has been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. THE RADIANT PLAINS OF EARTH. London. November 15. Sir George Reid. in an address at Dundee on national education, described Australia as one of the radiant plains tof the earth. Already ihere_ was an assurance of its national destiny surpassing its promise.