GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 248, 10 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

EXCISE FUNDS. By Cable—Pre** Association —Copyright. Received S), 5.5 p.m. Paris, March !). Four distillers at Gumbria have been fined £30,000 for defrauding the excise. MURDER IN PERSIA. Teheran. March S. , .All unknown Persian, running alongside the cam'ii£ ( '' « rcd sl,ots :,t M - Con " stant, the Belgian Dll'tv tor o) ' "stoms at Biishire, killing )iij wifci i'. m ' Bt ' noUs l, v wounding M, Constant. 4 y FLOOD* At fiTO. " Received 10, 12.35 a.in, 11 Itio de .laniero, starch 0. Unprecedented seas destroyed the quay ex'f-irisiou and invaded the streets. Hooding liiany residences. THE LONDON BAKERS' DISPUTE. London. March 8. Mr. Sydney liiixton, president of the Board of Trade, is iUervening in connection with the bakers', dispute. WAKNINO FfffiF.ir.N AIRCRAFT.

London, March 8. Tin 1 War Office is experimenting with rockets suitable for warning foreign air. craft against making observation. COMPULSORY INSURANCE, 1 The Hague. March S. T!ie Second Chamber lias adopted a Bill for tlie compulsory insurance of all workmen against old age and sickness, ; < AX ATTORNEY OX TRIAL i ' Received 10, a.m. New York, March 0. At Los Angeles, in tlie case of Ai'tornev Barrow, who was accused of bribery in' connection with the dpfence of the dynamiters who were tried for the Times building outrage, the jury disagreed. A new trial has been ordered. COLONIAL CRUISER'S TRTALS. London. March !*. The battle cruiser Australia has returned to.. Dcvonport after successful three-quarter speed trials for thirty hours.