GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9043, 19 March 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Received \ March 18, 8.50 a.m. 'LONDON, March 17. M'Leod, an ex-convict, committed a burglary at the residence of Mr Montgomery Fleming, a well-known Glasgow resident. M'Leod shot Mr Fleming, who then fired three times, and killed the burglar. A package of registered letters posted in London on the 21st ult, for transmission to New York by the steamer Cedric, were enclosed in the wrong mail-bag, and travelled to Yokohama, Japan. The missing correspondence is now proceeding to New York. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith's chauffeur was fined £4 for driving Mr Asquith at an excessive speed in S;. James's Park. A plea of privilege was disregarded. Miss Florence Nightingale's nephew received at the Guildhall, on her behalf, the freedom of the city. The City Chamberlain remarked that it was strange that an earlier generation of civic authorities had failed to distinguish themselves by distinguishing Miss Nightingale. Received March 18, 9.29 p.m. BERLIN, March 18. The German Government have refused to use 10 million marks of the war treasure kept in the Julius tower at Spandan for the Empire's current necessities, insisting that it must be kept available for time of war.