GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Br TELEGItArn—ntESS ASSOCIATION—COPYKIOItT.) ART SMUGGLING: A BIG PENALTY. (Rec. August 21, 11.40 p.m.) Now York, August 21. Mrs. Jack Gardener, a lady socially prominent in Boston, attempted to smugglo into America £18,000 worth of art objects. Upon detection sho was fined £80,000. The duty, £6000, was immediately paid. ANOTHER NEW STEAMER. (Rec. August 21, 9.50 p.m.) London, August 21. The New Zealand Shipping Company has ordered at Dumbarton a sister ship to tho Ofcaki, longer and finer. 'llio Otaki is a cargo steamor. In our shipping column yesterday a summary was given of the dimeusions of a new passenger steamer which tho Now Zealand Shipping Company has ordered at Dumbarton. , • _ COMMONWEALTH AND STATES: THE SURPLUS REVENUE. Hobart, August 21. The Government has issued a writ against the Commonwealth Government for the recovery of tho withheld surplus. ' ' Under the Surplus Revenue Act, the Federal Government is withholding for speoial purposes, such as old age pensions, the surplus moneys of tho "Federal fourth." The previous custom was that, after the Commonwealth had met its ordinary expenditure out of the onefourth of revenue allotted to it, any. surplus of that fourth was refunded to the States. Tho constitutionality of the Surplus Revenue Act is questioned by the States, and New South Wales is also testing it by legal process. MORE MINISTERS. Adelaide, August 21. In the Assembly, the Labour party succeeded in altering the Constitution Amendment Bill against the Government, and in favour of six Ministers with a salary of £1000 each (instead of four Ministers at £1000 each, as at present). THE LATE CAPTAIN COLQUHOUN. Melbourne, August 21. Tho lato Captain Colquhoun, D.5.0., was accorded a naval funeral, which was largely attended. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT YIELD. Adelaide, August 21. Preliminary official returns estimate tho wheat yield at 19,135,000 bushels, an averago of 10.1. DEATH OP A CLERGYMAN. Suva, August 21. Tlio John Williams brings tho report of tho death of tho Rev. Mr. Jones, at Peru Island, Gilbert Group, on August 8. WEST AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. Perth, August 21. The election campaign is proceeding briskly.