GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 200, 13 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

/ BIG GUN ACCIDENT. By Cable Press Association—Copyright Loudon, January 10. Gunner Poirsou, injured at Skoeburyman, has died in hospital. GOLD FOB. AUSTRALIA. London, January 10. Them are rumors in the city of a gold shipment to Australia. RRITTSII COTTON-GROWING. London, January 10. The Government renews the grant of £IO,OOO for three years to the British Cotton-growing Association. THE UNION BANK. Loudon. January 10. Tim Union Lank deposits total £21,027,522, cash investments and remittances £UJ,i;iB,4l4, bills £10,302,1574. The directors propose to create 20,000 additional shares., making the. capital £0,000,000.' THE SIIACKLETON CHARGES. London, January 10. E. R. Sliacklcton was remanded at Bond Street for the alleged" conversion of £IOOO in trust moneys belonging to Miss Josephine Browne. , WOOL PACKS. | London, January 10. I The commit!ee on vegetable fibre in I wool, in ils report, recommends two f pr,|ier-liiicd packs costing ninepenco and Toimvwe i-e:-; r (-ct:ivelv above the Greece and Jute bags. Messrs. A. Acton Adams ami. <le Little, wool growers' representatives, in a minority report, say that no satisfactory solution is possible unless' 1 ., wo ! bnyeV:; agree to pay part of the extra cost, A VALUABLE FIND. Rome, January 10. A peasant, while ploughing at Bassa-no-di-Satri, unearthed a bronze GraeeoRoman statue of Apollo. Roman dealers hurriedly motored out ami found that the Government had forestalled them, paying £I2OO for the find, which is estimated to be worth £12,000. THE BULLION ROBBERY. London, January 10. The Britisli and Continental police are investigating five recent bullion robberies. Despite the fact that the boxes substituted were packed with English lead, the detectives believe that the theft of tlie gold consigned to Alexand- f dria was carried out between Bremen and Trieste. A detective suggests that Continental guards, who are paid only 15s to £1 weekly, may easily be bribed to allow a stranger t* enter the van for a short time. THE OPIUM TRADE . Shanghai, January 10. The Governor of Changsha ordered a woman who persisted in smoking opium to be shot in the presence of a large crowd. THE RIVER COLLISION. 1 London, Janaury 10. j The fishing smack sank with the hop- j per dredge. Five minutes covered the ' accident.