CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7821, 14 June 1909, Page 1

CABLE NEWS.

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GERMANY'S TRADE. LONDON, June 12. In the House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill, in reply to a question, said that excluding in each case bullion and specie Germany's corrected imports for 1908 for home consumption were fifty-three millions and a-quarter sterling below those of 1907, and there was a decrease in exports of domestic merchandise, and produce of twentytwo millions, and a-quarter. THE AUSTRALIAN DREADNOUGHT. Mr Asquith read in the House of Commons the Earl of Dudley's message announcing a gift of a Dreadnought. The statement was received with loud cheers. LIEUTENANT SHACKLETON. Lieutenant Shackletoh was cordially welcomed at Brindisi. Ho was occupied on the voyage from Australia in writing his book. A STEAMER ASHORE. The Spanish steamer Antonio Lopez, with 526 passengers and a crew of 135, went ashore at Fire Island, near New York. The" passengers were rescued in lifeboats. A PROPOSED WATERWAY. NEW YORK, Juno 12. A board of engineers reported to Congress adversely with regard to a 'deep_ waterway from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. It estimates the cost at 128 million dollars, and the annual maintenance charge at six millions. ATHLETIC. SYDNEY, June 13. Mr R. Coombes, president of the Amateur Athletic Union of' Australasia, left by the Moana to attend a conference of the New Zealand Association on Olympic games representation.