GENERAL CABLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 148, 8 June 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

The Federal Government is sending an expert to test the Papuan oilfields. I A united purebred dairy cattle breed- | ere* association has been formed at i Sydney. i John Clarke, cashier of Proctor and j Co., corn merchants, of Liverpool, has: been arrested. It is alleged that his i defalcations are between £69.000 and £lOO,OOO. The Doucet sale at Paris realised £338,230. Loudon’s bust of his ten-: year-old daughter sold for £18.000: Chardin’s “ Bouteilfc-s d> Caron ” for ■ £12,020; Fragonard’s “Sacrifice of the Minotaur ’’ for £14.400. . A brilliant “ Hundred Years Ago ’’ ball, in aid of the Soldiers and Sailors Help Society, took place at the Albert Hall, London, which was decorated-to j resemble the. Brighton Pavilion in, Regency times. A large party of t royalties were present, and 4000 dan-' cers. The leading society women as-! sisted, and twenty-six sets of quadrilles i were arranged, including a reconstruc- i tion of the Duchess of Richmond’s famous set. I In a second case at Sydnevof a motor ! being driven through drilling cadets without injuring any of them, the driver was heavily fined. The Defence: Department is adopting methods to: prevent the recurrence of such accidents.' Beneficial rains have fallen in, Queensland. The protracted dryness was beginning to be seriously felt in many parts. 1 A shareholders’ meeting, attended by 200. at Sydnev. decided to wind up the business of Messrs. Sanders, Sutton,' and Whitehead. Ltd. They had lost i nearly £40.000 in two years. The com-, puny was formed in 1910 by the amal- : gamation of five light carrying businesses.