GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18974, 27 March 1924, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

In the Court of Revision (Sydney), Mr. W. G.. Stead appealed against the levying of income tax. upon the gross amount of the sales of his racing and draught horses in New South Wales, claiming that only five per cent, of such amount was taxable. The appeal was upheld. The steamer Benandra missed high tide when going outwards at Moruya (N.S.W.) but crossed the bar and encountered heavy breakers. She then struck a sandspit, and the next sea turned her broadside on, and, seas breaking over her, she became a total wreck. A passenger, named William Ward, who was working his way to Sydney, took refuge in the engineroom, which was filled with water, and he was drowned. Work was resumed at two of the northern mines (N.S.W.), but there were three fresh disputes, increasing the number of idle pits to ten. The Queensland Government has decided not to proclaim a special holiday during the visit of the Fleet. The London Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent states that the wife of a superior official in the Law Courts has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two husbands, a mother-in-law and a brother-in-law. It is alleged that as a result of the deaths of her first husband, his mother, and brother, the accused inherited the family’s wealth. The accused is only thirty-two, and first entered the family as a nurse. Doctors gave certiorates of deaths on her testimony that they were due to natural causes or suicide.

At the inqdest on a British soW’er killed at Queenstown, a verdict of wilful murder against unknown persons was returned. The Dublin Corporation adopted a resolution condemning the outrage.