GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

ENGLISH BETTING CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Feb. 24. Captain and Mrs. Peel have been committed for trial on a charge of inducing a country postmaster to alter the time of betting telegrams. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. London, Feb. 24. Mrs. Bendix, who brought a breach of promise action against her husband, who divorced her and then promised to marry her. again, but ultimately married an actress, has received £5OOO damages. THE OLYMPIC GAMES. Paris, Feb. 23. Cabinet is submitting a Bill providing for a credit of 10,000.000 francs to coyer the cost of the Olympic Games in 19*$4. BLACKMAILING LETTERS. New York, Feb. 23. Several of the prominent Washington society women recently received letters threatening them with death unless they pay sums varying from 15.000 to 25,000 dollars. The letters are not of the ordinary type of anonymous letters, but written on good, paper in faultless English. BANK MANAGER ARRESTED. Paris, Feb. 24. A further sensation has been caused by the arrest of M. Pernotte, general manager of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, after undergoing a magisterial interrogation. The Government scheme for applying France’s unpaid share of the Chinese Boxer indemnity to the reconstruction of the Banque de Chine will be submitted to Parliament.