GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14133, 12 February 1910, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH NEW GUINEA. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, Feb, 11. The British New Guinea Development Company will shortly offer in Loudon and Australasia £500,000 7 per cent, participating preference shares in Lord Ranfurly’s Papuan Land Syndicate, which receives £52,000 cash and 223,000 ordinary £1 shares, ranking for dividend after the latter have received their 7 per cent. THE COHEN WILL CASE. (Received Feb. 12, 8.5 a.in.) LONDON, Fdb. 11. The Cohen case has been settled Bradley relinquishing a bequest of £IO,OOO, and the executors withdrawing imputatations against Bradley. ■AMERICAN SUGAR DUTIES. (Received Feb. 12, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Fob. 11. Thb. National Sugar Refining Company has paid £120,800, making a total of £700,000 in settlement of Customs duties on unweighed imports. ‘ A MORGANATIC MARRIAGE. LONDON, Feb. 11. The Daily Mail’s St. Petersburg correspondent says the Czar is furious at his brother’s morganatic marriage with a lady who has been thrice divorced. THE “BROWN DOG” MONUMENT. (Received Feb. 12, 8.45 a.in.) LONDON, Feb. 11. The Battersea Council has decided to return to the donors the Brown Dog anti-vivisection statue, after having it watched night and day for several years. [This monument was erected throe years ago on the Latchmere' Estate Recreation Ground. It bore an inscription which medical students regarded as offensive, and they made repeated attempts to pull it down, necessitating constant watching on the part of the authorities.]