GENERAL CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

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LONDON, N.ov. 18. The ill’st officer*': iff the steamer Melita; Thomas Towers, was found guilty of the murder of Captain Clews at Antwerp, hut was declared to be

. ..Jnsansr, Ho was .ordered to. bo.,de-,“‘*-i,detained • itb-Tliir- pleasure-. u The evidence showed .that .after disputes on the Melita- suspicion rested on the accused ,of having made a report to headquarters abour, the captain behind' tlie hitter’s hack. The Vjfdst Australian loan of £2,500,000 was fully subscribed. The Financial Times says the • launching of the loan was successful and the underwriters \Vcrc released frbiii' all liability. ditty about. 2(5 per rent, of the Tasmanian loan was applied for. PARIS, Nov. 18. On the suggestion of the Bril/ish Secretary of State l'or Foreign Affairs, Mr Austen Chamberlain, Herr Von. iioseh, German Ambassadbr to Paris, has been invited to lake his scat at the Ambassadors’ Conference. BERLIN, Nov. 18. The execution took place to-day of tiie man Angerslcin, who was charged with the murder, in March last, of eight , persons, comprising ins wife, mother-in-law, a maidservant, two gardeners and two clerks. The condemned man made no statement. CAIRO, Nov. 18. The Egyptian Government lias issued a warning that it will forcibly ".‘.preVent a meeting at Parliament . House or elsewhere of certain members of the Chamber of Deputies who had intended to hold a meeting outside Parliamenfc, Buildings on Saturday next. Tiie communique warns ’ the Deputies that they ceased to have any representative, character when Parliament was dissolved on March 25. It says a new electoral law will be promulgated when the elections rendered necessary by the decree of March 25 arc held.