GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1923, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph-Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Dec. 25. The cause celefbre, namely the trial of the anarchist girl, Germaine Berthon, on a charge of murdering Plateau, the leader of a Royalist organisation, ended in the acquittal of the accused. London, Dec. 25. Mr. Charles Fordyce, of Ponsonby, Auckland, has made a gift of £sooo', for a nursing scheme for his native parish of Oamrie, in Banffshire. Tok io, Dee. 25. A fire broke out in the Oriental Hotel, Kobe, shortly after midnight, and destroyed half the building. The damage ie estimated at three hundred thousand yen. Tokio, Dec. 25Baron Den has- resigned from the Cabinet, holding himself responsible for the failure of the Government’s Insurance Bill. Doctor Okano combines the portfolio of Agriculture and Commerce with that of Education. The amended reconstruction budget was passed by the Upper House at an extraordinary session, which closes on Monday. The regular session opens on Tuesday. Delhi, Dec. 25A movable column of Afghan troops is proceeding from Jahalabad in the direction of Mandatar, where the Afghan governor is conferring with the tribal heads as to the best way of dealing wiui the murder gang hiding in the neighbourhood. Capetown, Dee. 25. It is officially announced that owing to foot and mouth disease the importation of cattle, slheep, goats and. pigs from Great Britain and Ireland is prohibited until lurther notice.