GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 16 March 1909, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

♦ DT ELEOTBIO Hr,EGBAPU COPTKIGUT, PER UNITED I'BEBS ASSOCIATION, LONDON, March Id.' The output, of coal in 1908 was 261,560,379 Hojis, & decrease of 6,306,4V3 tons, wliiJe 4i,l'Jo more miners were employed. New Zealand has secured a large area at the Imperial Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush. 'Krit/ish expenditure on intoxicating liipior was £I6J .000,000 in 1908, as against £1i>7,000,000 in 1907. Mr Alexander Wilkie. M.l>., secretary to the Shipwrights' Society, interviewed, said there was no objection to the employment of colonial artisans on the Clyde if their object was to learn the business of warship building, jit would, he considered, bo many years before Australia could compete with [Home yards, but the establishment of repair yards might probubly necessitate many skilled liiglish workmen going to Australia. SYD.VEY, -March ir>. The collier Wallsend, which went ashore in a rough sea and in a bad position on liellaiubi reef, sustained damage to her bottom to the extent of several thousands of pounds.