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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 27 December 1906, Page 7

(condensed cables

Suez, December 26. The steamer, Berlin from xVdelait] landed two cases of plague at Suez. "'. ■ London ,' : December 26. a The revenue up "to Saturday wa 3t two millions above. Mr^Asquith's cs 30 pectatioos. " ', tr .- Brussels, December 26. >s 'Forty; thousaad stealing in bond x " and twenty, thousand in cash wa c stolen from the sister^ Rufeluaonde l ' near Antwerp. The chief burglar escaped, '* caped, 'but four supposed accomplices ' were arrested. n Paris, December 2&. The Paris poHcu raided a inaternitj home and found a* stove where it was alleged over one hundred new-born ■■ Tnfatt'ls have been cremated. It is estimated 'that filteen hundred infanta ' havo been cremated in the home. The French' • i 2ttinis J ter for has promised the JVencti Sociaiis'ts- to iu9 troduice . a Female Suffrage BiM. , Berlin, December 24. 1 Two na/me'd Wills 1 were arrested in Bavaria on a charg-e of ob- ! tainin^g '.largo sums of money 'under (false' pretences. A third brother, who was not arrested at the- time, induced the gaoler* to liberate the other two, promising • him a reward of £1=2,500 and £100.000 a year l&ter on. He represented they were reklly thio Austrian Crown Princes. The brother and .' the gaoler 'were apprehefßdetr, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, while the brothers .iVills were i*e-ar-rested and sentenced* to a long term of imprisonment. The Council of the Eegency of Brunswick brings before the . Fefdera'l Conn-; eil the question of the Duke of Cum"berland and his son's succession to thp. "throne. • * i The X/agliche Rundschati, a Berlin Journal, reports that Bersoba Hottentots in the upper reaches of the Great FasTi River, are showing signs of unrest, '.Gfreat anxiety is felt at^ Berlin*. New York, December 24. A grand jury at WatMn^, New; York, refused to indict j Fi'ederick Scobey, a broker's son, for murdering Frederick 1 Dickenson, his wife's admirer. The refusal was based on tha doctrine of unwritten law. Dr. Alva Jones, of Luasvill-e, lias solved the problen^ of maintainang, telephonic conniramicaticn Ijotwem moving trains. r # Uaid'er th|s . auspices of tl«e University of Illinois, packers are founding at. Chicago .tho . most complete Veterinary College in the world, mainly to provide competent inspectors for stock y>ards 3 - , . Ijonidon, December 25. Burglars climbing a 'wastqpipe, forced the skylight ; and entered the premises •of th<^. LQndoi* Goldsmiths' Go'mplafijf Oxford-«stpeijt, ', aaid st,p|e £^000 worth 6?' jewellery. The Daily Mail sayc it is understood that Canada haid appointed the staf? for the Rigl-.t Hem. J. Bryce, the new British Ambassador at Waeh"•bi'ton ' ' The Fr«?mden-81-a)th in an article deI dared that the mahatenance of the present state oi things in Albania will prove impossible. Autonomy on a .nar tiqnal basis must take ,its place. 'Autonomy musi; in the absence of refo^'m, also be established in Macedonia. /Melbourne, December 25. The Rev. Dr. Eaiiny , was buried here. Sydney, Deccniber 24. There ,is boisterous .weather, with cold rain. A deadlock has occurred with re-g-artf to r-ates of pay l>etween the niaste? butchers an I the silau^hter-. men, with the result "that Sydney is threatened with a meat famine. Sydney, December 26. W'ardstaan Rooke, while representing Father Christmas ** at the Wyalong Hospital festivities, was burfat to death. . ' ■ ' il