GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 300, 12 May 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

I MARRIAGE ON 9s A WEEK. j YOUNG WIFE'S PITIFUL STORY. (Australian Press Service). London, May 1. Some remarkable features were disclosed to-day in a case at Swansea, Wales, in which a young woman was granted a summons, against her husband, by whom she had been deserted. The woman stated thai when she was married her husband was not earning more than 9s a week, and that the last money she received from him was only 4d. BURGLAR'S BROKEN LEG. FRIENDS' ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. London, May 1. Another comedy has set Paris laughing. A burglar, while escaping out of a window of a house where he had been paying a nocturnal visit, fell and broke his leg. He was captured by the police and taken to a hospital. At midnight his accomplices rolled up in a motor car, and representing themselves as relatives of the patient, obtained admission. They wrapped their friend up in bed- ; clothes and commenced to carry him out, but unfortunately they were not expert ambulance men, and they hurt him. The injured burglar yelled with pain, and woke the hospital staff up. The wouldbe rescuers decamped. A WIDOW'S HOARD. REMARKABLE DISCOVERY. London, May 1. The death of an elderly woman, the widow of a policeman, brought about a remarkable discovery in Colchester, Essex, to-day. ; It was generally believed that the ' woman was in the poorest of circumstances, and that she bad died in poverty. L When, however, her cottage came to 1 be searched, the discovery was made that ! she had £IOOO in gold and silver con- • cealed in different corners of the house. WAR TO THE KNIFE. AMERICAN BEEF COMPANIES. 1 , London, May 1. t Proof that Great Britain has no grip t on the Beef Trust is demonstrated by • the -keen rivalry existing between the - American beef companies operating at e vSmithfi'eld. These concerns have declared a war t to the knife, and a general fall in prices is therefore anticipated.