GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144351, 16 March 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A POLISH TRIAL. BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYBIOHt. (Received March 16, 8 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 15. Seventy-four persons are charged at the coming Warsaw trial, which is expected to last three months. A thousand witnesses have been called. BANK MANAGER SENTENCED. (Received March 16, 9.25 a.m.) DELHI, March 15. Kothavle, manager of tho Bombay Banking Company, which failed in October, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for breach of trust. A YOUNG HEIRESS TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. (Received March 16, 8.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 15. Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt, aged 13, has inherited her father’s ten millions. THEFT OF JEWELS. PARIS, March 14. While the wife of M. Hartog, a banker, was at tho theatre, £BOOO worth of jewels were stolen from a secret drawer in her residence. The valet has disappeared. FORTUNE FOE AN ACTRESS. PARIS, March 14. Albert Edwards, founder of Le Matin, has bequeathed a quarter of a million sterling to Gabriclle Romano, a young actress, a. friend of his lato wife. WIRELESS TELEPHONES. LONDON. March 14. Reuter’s Sicily correspondent states that Marconi has successfully tested a new wireless telephone system between warships. AN IMPORTANT CONTRACT. LONDON, March 15. The British Insulated and Helsby Cables Company has secured a £300,000 contract to supply overhead electric equipment for the Melbourne railways. THE KAISER’S VIEWS’ON RIDING. (Received March 16, 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, March 15. Tho Kaiser has ordered officers’ wives to refrain from riding horseback astride. BASUTO CHIEF FINED. (Received. March 16, 9.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 16, The paramount chief of Basutoland has fined Jonathan, a troublesome chief, twenty head of cattle. THE TRANSVAAL STRIKE. (Received March 16, 9.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March IS. Six Volkmst strikers have been fined sums from 50s to £l3 for desertion of duty and inciting others to desert. GALES IN ENGLAND. (Received March 16, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, March’ls. Violent gales are raring in the west and south of England. A hundred houses have been unroofed at Queenstown. JAPANESE NAVY ESTIMATES. (Received March 16, 9.10 a.m.) TOKIO, March 15. Tho Lower House rejected tEe Senate’s reduction in the naval estimates. A joint conference of both Houses has been summoned. . OLD CATHEDRAL ON FIRE. (Received March 16, 9.10 a.m.) BERLIN, March 15. The cathedral at Neuss, one of the finest specimens of mediaeval architecture in German has been greatly damaged by fire. The tower collapsed, bot> the nave was saved. WORLD’S COMMERCE SCHEME. (Received March 16, 9.10 ajn.)' BERLIN, March 16. The world’s commerce scheme has collapsed, owing to one of the most important trade organisations holding aloof.