GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A CUSTOMS FRAUD. Py Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Las Palmas, .April 25. Tubes, ostensibly containing compressed hydrogen, hut. actually filled with alcohol, have been smuggled under the nose of officials. The revenue lost £BOOO. GERMAN TRAITOR SENTENCED. Berlin, April 25. A man named Kohler has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment at Leipzig for espionage on behalf of Russia and France. His wife was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER. Berlin, April 25. Through an explosion in the stokehold of the steamer Iniperator eight liremen were killed and , three are in a critical condition. BRITON IMPRISONED IN JAPAN, j Tokio, April 25. Mr. Wheeler, who was arrested at Yokohama at the end of January on a charge of obtaining money under false prentences, has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude. He has appealed against the sentence. THE CONFIDENCE TRICK. London,.April 25. Sims, formerly a mining engineer in New Zealand, has lost £SOO by means of the conlidence trick. ! KOREAN AFFAIRS. . Seoul, April 25. Representatives of Japan and the foreign Powers have signed a draft agreement abolishing foreign settlements in Korea. A BRITISH AMBASSADOR. Washington, April 25. Mr. James Bryee, the British Ambassador, has departed homewards, via New York, San Francisco, China and Japan. THE BRIBERY CHARGES. Berlin, April 25. Privy Councillor Hugenburg, Chairman of Krupps' Company, denies the charge of bribery. He states that the firm received dozens of secret reports daily. Secret reports were their daily bread. A COSTLY PICTURE. London, April 25. Gainsborough's great picture, "The Market Cart," has been sold at auction for nineteen thousand two hundred guineas. THE PEACE DELEGATION. London, April 20. The King received the Peace Centenary Delegation prior to its departure for New York. AN OSMIRIDIUM NUGGET. Hobart, April 20. A prospector near Pieman River unearthed a nugget of osmiridium weighing two ounces. This is the largest nugget so far found in the world.