LATE CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 73, 8 March 1911, Page 8

LATE CABLES.

“SUNLIGHT” IN THE CONGO. LEVER BROS.’* ENTERPRISE. (Received 8, 1.30 p.m.) London, Mar. 7.

The “Daily Express’ ” Brussels correspondent reports the Belgian Tdinister for the Colonies has agreed to Messrs. Lever Bros forming a company with a capital of £1,000,000 to plant palm oil trees and establish a factory to deal in the oil which the Congo produces. MEXICO. Mexico, Mar. 7. President Diaz is on his deathbed. The United States troops are massed on Mexican borders. THE SHIP ARYAN. AN UNFORTUNATE SKIPPER. New York, Mar. 7. The ship Aryan has arrived at San Diego. She left Philadelphia 207 days ago. The captain was struck blind at sea. N.Z. LOAN AND MERCANTILE. REORGANISATION OF CAPITAL.

London, Mar. 7.

The “Financial Times” states that the result of the negotiations between the trustees of the third debenture holders and the directors of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. is that the trustees are more favourable to reorganisation on a capital based upon reduction of £8,500,000 by contribution from proprietors’ supplement from reserve.

LIFTED FROM SQUALOR. IRISH PAUPER’S FORTUNE. London, Mar. 7.

Dublin courts are investigating the case of Corcoran, who.was living in squalor and mentally incapable. He has inherited £250,000 from an American relative. The American attorney in the first place misrepresented the value of the inheritance, while the Irish solicitor secondly netted £30,000. Corcoran is now receiving £l2OO a 1 year net income.

RELAPSED INTO INSANITY. Melboum’e, Mar. 8.

Camelia McClusky, who murdered her children on August 7th, is detained owing to temporary m sanity. She was to have been liberated, and arrangements had been made for her to enter a convent.

A LIBELLOUS PLACARD.

London, Mar. 7.

Lord Howard de Walden is slicing John Lewis, a silk mercer, for alleged libel in placing in his shop a placard accusing Lord de Walden, who is his landlord, of exercising wicked and unscrupulous oppression. The action is the climax of ten years’ litigation.

MADAGASCAR. London, Mar. 7.

In the Madagascar concession case the jury found that judicial separation between Mr. and Mrs. Horne was a ruse to evade liability, and gave a verdict for plaintiff for the amount claimed. Judgment was reserved on a legal point.