GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8988, 25 November 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, November 2. _ Frederick Helbert, formerly private secretary to Earl Carrington when the latter was Governor of New South Wales, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment at Old Bailey on a charge uf misappropriating £BSO belonging to Miss Frances McCarthy, whose property he managed. LONDON, November 22. The new Cunard liner Mauretania, in her trip across the Atlantic, put up a record yesterday, traversing 624 knots. BERLIN, November 22. Walter Puckyer, a notorious antiSemitic agitator, has been arrested in Berlin as a dangerous lunatic. He wrote abusive pamphlets to the Kaiser. NEW YORK, November 22. The Grand Jury has indicted Maxwell, ex-president of the Borough Bank, Brooklyn, Gow, a director, and Campbell," cashier, for larceny and other offences. CAPETOWN, November 22. A loyal Zulu chief was murdered at Nkandhla. A large patrol has been sent out. NEW YORK, November 22. I Owing to Hebrews in New York j protesting against sectarianism, the . ' singing of Christmas carols has been I forbidden in the public schools, and the name of Christ will be expunged from all song books. HAMBURG, November 22. The Moeller Wax Company has failed. The liabilities total £450,000, and the assets £50,000. BERLIN, November 22. The German Chancellor (Prince Bulow) is watching the eft'cct of the Commonwealth tariff on German exports before fixing the duration of the proposed renewal of the favoured nation clause to Britain and her colonies. Received November 24. 4.50 a.m. LONDON, Novembtr 23. Advices received state that ten thousand people were killed by the recent earthquake in Karatagh. (Karatagh is in Bokhara, or Western Turkestan. An earthquake caused a great mountain slide, which buried the town).