YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10156, 30 December 1910, Page 7

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

+ — —- The State Superintendent of Banks closed the Northern Bank at New York, which has deposits exceeding one million, on the ground of certain irregularities. Robin, chairman of the Bank Committee, entered a sanatorium on Saturday following, a mental breakdown. He attempted suicide. The Sofia correspondent of the newspaper Janin reports that all the secret documents of the. Turkish Legation there have been stolen. The theft is attributed to the Bulgarian desire for evidence regarding Turko-Roumanian relations. Laffont, who is not the naval aviator, but another man of the same name, at the height of 125 feet left his plane, which snapped. The machine turned a somersault, and Laffont' s skull was fractured, and his arm driven into his body. Pola, another aviator, had his throat pierced by a splinter of wood. There was an extra bank holiday in London on Wednesday; shops and business houses generally were closed. The Clyde ship-builders only had a single day's holiday, owing to pressure of work. . The Battve tragedy at Adelaide is a complete mystery. The room where the bodies of Mrs Battye ana the child were found were set alight, apparently in the endeavour to hide the crime. Battye was well off, and very affectionate to his wifo and child. He was married only two yoars ago. Evidently the murder was committed while'the victims were asleep. The Spanish Government is excavating Abderrahman's city of Azzahra, in Andalusia, which was abandoned after its sack by Mudarites and Berbers in 1909. It is described as Arabic Pompeii. The estate of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade, of Melbourne, was proved at £269,495. He bequeathed to the Melbourne Public Library his Tebbit s picture, "The Ancient Giants" ; and for distribution amongst his employees at McLeay River who havo„ b een five year's in the firm's service, £3OOO. Worms, a Parisian banker, en r trusted £10,500 sterling to a clerk named Loeb, with instructions to convey it to London. Two English fellow passengers, named Linman and Thompson, induced Loeb to confide the money to their safe-keeping, promising to meet him in London, whither they were travelling by a different route. Linman and Thompson have not been seen since by Loeb. A Sydney resident has invented; a system of wireless telegraphy, and established a connection r through 92 I miles of earth. A drag containing thirty picnickers was overturned at Tallangatta, Victoria, and hurled down a declivity. A scene of indescrible confusion followed. All were injured, but none fatally. The Mayor, the Chief of Police, and seven city officials of Gary, Indiana, have been arrested on a charge of having altered votes at the State election in November. Two persons were killed and fifty injured in a street car collision in Kansas Citv (Missouri). The cars met on a viaduct. The panic-stricken passengers fought for exits and several fell over the viaduct into the .sand below.