GENERAL CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 73, 10 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Four distillers at Cambrai (France’, were fined £50,000 for defrauding the Excise. The Second Chamber at The Hague has adopted a Bill for compulsory insurance of workmen against old age ant! SlCixll f S 3. After signing the bill granting an amnesty to (We!) persons imprisoned as n resti.lt of the recent Cuban rebellion, President Gomez decided to yield 'to the American protest and veto the measure. Attorney Barrow was accused of bribery at Lo> Aiig.-l<>< in connection with the demm-■ <1 the dynamitards who were tried lot the “ Tinies ” build-' ing onri age. Th? jury disagreed, and a new trial of Barrow «;is ordered. Franklin, charged with setting fire to a railway train at Harrow (Eng.), h.a.-s been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay costs of the prosecution. Count Boni de Castellane obtained from the Eccle-iot icai Court at R< the annulment of his religious mai with Anna Gon id, on the ground that she. before marriage, wrote st t ttb it she would remain Protest mt tn order to retain the right of divorce. This indicated the absence of perfect <<-.n.-cni to the marriage. The Countess in Dll divorced the Count do Castellane in the civil court, and marrb'd his cousin, the Piince de S-igaii. now i'-tic de Ta'lv.i - rand.