GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

MONARCHS PENSIONED OFF. By Telegraph.—Presl Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Jan. 26. The Ambassadors’ Conference has fixed Karl and Zita’s pensions. The Echo dj Paris says that a total /--of six million francs annually will be paid by Hungary, Italy, Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Czechoslovakia. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. UNEMPLOYED IN ENGLAND. London, Jan. 26. A quarter of a million fewer people were registered as wholly unemployed on January 17 than six months ago, but the present total is nearly two millions. There are now 124,000 employed on Government and municipal schemes and emergency work. —Reuter. - GENEROUS BENEFACTIONS. London, Jan. 26. Lord Mount Stephen left £1,500,000. He bequeathed £lO,OOO to the Barnardo’s Homes, £2OOO to the Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and after provision for his wife, servants, and executors, the residue amounting to over £500,000 goes to King Edward’s Hospital.—Aus.-N.Z. o Cable Assn. TAXING “INFANTS’” INCOMES. London, Jan 26. A Huddersfield Magistrate declined to make an drder to pay income-tax against two workmen under the age of 21 years, on the ground that they were infants m law He adjourned the cases io enable income-tax representatives 1 to produce authority for starting the prosecution.--Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.