GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 202, 24 February 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

PICTURE THIEVES CAPTURED. I I'.T Cable—Press Association—Copyright 1 Paris. February 22. j Two accomplices of the Paris picture i thief have been arrested. Pictures were | stolen from various houses in Belgium. Three others have been arrested at Brussels. MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL. ' London, February 22. The Manchester Ship Canal is paying a dividend of 2 1 /, per cent., the first dividend since 181)1. A.IEWELLER UOUHF.I). London, February 22. lihmckctsee, a jeweller at Birmingham, deposited in a eloak-reom at a lube station at King's Cross, a case containing £(iO()l) worth of jewellery. Thu case mysteriously disappeared. DROUIiIIT IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, February 23. The continued drought lias caused a water famine at Collar mines and a thousand employees are rendered idle. THE LUMPERS' DISPUTE. Melbourne, February 23. Despite, the wharf laborers' decision to resume working overtime, the coallumping section persists id day work only, so far as handling coal is concerned, hut has consented to deal with ordinary cargo after 5 o'clock and so secure a share of overtime pay. The lumpers' attitude i.-, causing much delay in coaling vessels. A LEOPARD AT LAW IF* Melbourne, February 23. A leopard escaped from the Zoo and inado its way to Brunswick, where it took refuge in a shed. It was discovered by a girl, who was so frightened thai she fainted. Ajicighbor shot the aniI mal dead.

COSTLY MISTAKIO. New York, February 22. Miss Katherine O'Rourke, charged by the medical officer with being the mother of a child found dead in the steerage on the steamer Campania, \v»s awarded 3.),{M)0 dollars damages against the Cunard Company. PLAY PROHIBITED. St. Petersburg, February 22. The Holy Synod secured' tho prohibition of tho perforniiince of the Grand Duke Constantino's drama, ''King of the Jews," on the ground that it is antiOhristian and dangerous to morals.