BRITISH AND FOREIGN
United Pren Association — By Eltctrit Telegraph — Copyright. (Received March 25, 8.30 a.m.) ' A PENSION. LONDON, March 24. A civil list' pension of £120 has beeßi awarded to Do* Hall Edwards, as si martyr to the use of the X rays. THE ROCHETTE FRAUDS. ■""-' ! ' PARIS, March 24. French newspapers assert that th< v collapse of Rochette's concerns has involved a loss of £8,000,000. Great excitement prevails in Lille and Toulon, where there were, numerous investors* (Henri Rochette, a company prp«*^ moter, has been arrested in Paris on ok charge of committing . frauds in con-' nection with his flotation of industrial stocks, ' representing three million ster* ling. He employed 400 clerks.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9194, 25 March 1908, Page 2
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