GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 249, 11 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

:oaxk r i;pie y scaxdal. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 0. In the charges brought against Arthur Newton, a well-known solicitor, and Berkeley Bennett, an undischarged bankrupt, of defrauding Tans Tbosch of £23.000, Thoseh gave evidence that he was induced to invest £14,500 in Manchurian Concessions, Ltd., from which lie did not receive any return. Subsequently Newton and others persuaded him to invest £IO,OOO in alleged bogus land and timber concessions in Canada. Xewton's bail was fixed at £IO,OOO.

£60,000 LOST IX OXE DAY. London, March 0. A Roumanian named Dimitresco committed suicide at Brighton. He was ruined owing to his spaeulations, losing £OO,OOO in a single day. CANADA AND FIJI. Suvn. March 0. Mr. George Foster. Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce, has informed a local deputation that Canada had arranged to extend preference to Fiji without bargaining. A KOPKXICK AFFAIR. Berlin, March 0. A man in officer's uniform called and inspected the municipal books at Sutterliauscn. lindiny several thousand marks above the correct amount, lie took away the book and money with the official's consent, allegedly to the Ministry of Finance at Berlin. The municipal officers subsequently discovered that they had been robbed.

SHIPBUILDERS' LOSSES. Berlin, March 9. j The Vulcan Shipbuilding Company's report shows a loss of £100,001) 011 ships { built for the navy in 1912. The report j states that orders for large vessels in the navy ami .mercantile marine are always placed 011 terms involving a loss to the builders. REFRACTORY PARLIAMENTARIANS. Buda Pesth. March 9. To combat obstruction' the Government has introduced standing orders imposing lines 011 refractory members. GERMAN COTTON GROWING. Berlin, March 9. The Reichstag has voted £IO,OOO for | cotton cultivation in East Africa. Dr. | Solf, Secretary for the Colonies, stated • that Germanv must follow England's lead and compete with America. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. Capetown. March 9. | General Ilertzog asks the people tOj refrain from urging his reinstatement in the Cabinet,, as his and General Botha's, opinions are too divergent. TRAWLER FOUNDERS. London, March 9. The Hull trawler Admiral Togo was wrecked on the coast of Iceland. The crew of twelve were landing in a boat when it was swamped, and the whole crew perished.