GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 248, 25 February 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

1 CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS' | FUND. ! | By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, February 23. j Mr. W. Lever, chairman of Lever Bros., lias given £IO,OOO to the Con- ' gregational Ministers' Fund, and Colonel W. Pilkington ha 3 given £SOOO. [ TENEMENTS AFIRE. St. Petersburg, February. 'A Are in a workmen's tenement hoUse in Moscow demolished the house, five of the occupants being incinerated. Twenty-five others were injured by jumping from the windows.

MURDEROUS NATIVES. St. Petersburg, February 23. Twenty-three natives attacked and murdered Harvey, owner of naptha works at Grosny, together with Barnard, his manager. Both were Englishmen. A Russian workman was also killed. A DRIVER'S RESPONSIBILITY. • Paris, February 23. The driver of the Brest express, which dashed into a goods train at Courville, has been charged with culpable homicide. Seven persons were killed in the accident. THE COFFEE POISONING CASE. London, February 23. The verdict at the inquest in Guernsey' on the dath of Hutchinson was that he committed isuicide in desperation, owing to his impending arrest. A CLERICAL CO-RESPONDENT. : London, February 23. In "the Kemp-Welsh divorce case the first trial of which was reported oil December 4, 1909, a decree nisi was granted with £IOOO damages against the co-respondent, the Rev. Charles Hambledon-Crymbes. SMALL-POX AT MILE END. London, February 23. Twenty-four cases of small-pox are reported. OLYMPIA HORSE SHOW. London, February 23. At least seventy foreign officers and three Canadians will compete at the Horse Show at Olympia on June 14. ROYAL RECOGNITION. London, February 23. King George personally bestowed numerous-medals for bravery. He congratulated Mrs. Wright, who on December 20 went to the assistance of Constable Haystead when the latter was arresting an armed burglar named Arthur. The King walked to the stretcher whereon Sergeant Woodham, one of the Houndsditch constables, had been brought to the place. The King, bending over and shaking hands with Woodham, inquired as to his progress, and warmly commended his valour.