GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 169, 4 December 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

REMAND GRANTED. By Cable—Press Association-Copyright. London, December 2. At Clerkenwell, Annie Cross, who is over six feet in height, was remanded on the charge of murdering Jessie Mcintosh. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Johannesburg, December 2. During the funeral, at Gonniston cemetery, of McCann, who was killed by an explosion at Victoria Falls transforming station, lightning struck half of the mourners to the ground, killing one and injuring sixteen, five severely. THE SEDDON CASE. j London, December 2. As the result of the confession by Seddon's widow, she and her second husband have been driven out of liirkenkead. [Seddon was hung for the murder of Miss Barrow. Mrs. Seddon recently confessed that her husband had .substituted arsenic from ily-papers for the victim's medicine.] THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. London, December 2. Sir George Reid has communicated the Commonwealth's invitaLion to the British Association, Sir Charles Lucas being specially invited. The invitation has given much satisfaction. j AMERICAN RAILWAYS. ! Washington, December 2. The Supreme Court has ordered the dissolution of the merger union of the Pacific and Southern Pacific railway companies. The suit started in 1907. The late Mr. Harriman was the principal defendant involved. His interests in the Salt Lake and Santa Fe railroads were declared illegal.

RURAL HOUSING BILL. London, December 2. Lord Salisbury introduced the Compulsory Rural Housing Bill, which provides that the State supply private owners with the necessaiy capital, and prohibits profit-making. BEQUEST BY LORD FURNESS. London, December 2. Lord Furness bequeathed £30,000 for training boys for the mercantile marine. THE GOLDBERG ROBBERY. London, December 2. Stanley, a taxicab driver, has been arrested in connection with the Goldberg diamond robbery. [A cablegram of November 17 said: "Three men seized Goldberg, a Hattoh Garden ■diamond-dealer, near his residence at Hackney, and stole £I3OO worth of diamonds and escaped."] SHIP'S CREW RESCUED. London, DecemLer 2.

(The German liner Cape Ortegel rescued the crew of the British steamer Barcelona, which foundered in the- Bay ' of Biscay in a gale.

I FIRE IN GLASGOW. , I London, December 2. ) Damage to the extent of £(10,000 was ) done and hundreds of people thrown out of work through the great lire at Campboll's, who were the largest warehousemen in Glasgow. j THE NEW QUAY TRAGEDY. ; London, December 2. j A telegram from New Quay reports i fjho finding on shore of the body of Mrs. II Nowell, who mysteriously disappeared a few days ago. Fishermen found the body of Mrs. Nowell on the rocks. They were | seeking for it, because it was the ninth day after disappearance. Mrs. Nowell'fi husband and hundreds of spectators watched the coastguards lifting the body, up a high cliff by rope ladders. [Mrs. Nowell,'a Sheffield lady, disappeared mysteriously from the hotel at New_ Quay, Cornwall, where she' was staying. An unsuccessful search was made, and a retired barrister, named Delay, a friend of hers, was so distracted when she could not be found that he } committed suicide. He had left Mrs ' I Nowell £33,000 by a codicil to his will.]