GENERAL CABLES.
Received March 6, 8.10 a.m. LONDON, March 5. Mrs Margaret Alcott, once an actress in Australia under the name of Miss Leighton, committed .suicide on the Metropolitan Railway. Lord Overtoun bequeathed £61,000 to religious and charitable societies, including £25,000 to the United Free Church. King EdwaH has started on a visit to Biarritz. Queen Alexandra, who intended going on a cruise with the King, is detained in England at present, owing to the visit of her sister, the Empress Dowager Marie of Russia. Earthquake shocks were felt at Andover, Swindon, and H'ungerford. ST. PETERSBURG, March 5. The Czar pardoned fifteen persons condemned at Odessa for participating in anti-Jewish pogroms at Tiraspol, in the Kherson district. Received March 6, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, March 6. Mr R. B. Haldane, Secretary of War, has announced that the general staff appointments in Britain have been thrown open to colonial officers. He mentioned that the command of the Infantry Brigade at Aldershot has been offered to Colonel Otter, a Canadian.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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167GENERAL CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 7 March 1908, Page 5
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