MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 2 October 1907, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS WIRES.

[Unite*** 1.':; juOCUTiOH.— Co*... BIOHT.I BERLIN, Tuesday. The German turbine cruiser Stettin attained a speed of 251 knots. LONDON, Tuesday. The British quarterly revenue is £33,379,771— Cu5t0m5, £7,931,000; Excise, £9,230,000; Stamps, £2,073,000. Obituary— Maior-General Sir John Ardagh, K.C.M.G., K.C.1.E., F.R.G.S., F.R.C.1., aetat 67. (The late Sir John 1 Ardagh married in 1896 the widow of the Earl of Malmesbury. He entered , the Royal Artillery in 1859, and was < made Major-General in 1898. 'He was associated with international diplomacy as well as with various military expeditions, and he was a member of the Permanent International Court of Arbitration at the Hague. He was the British Government's director of the Suez Canal Company in 1903.) It is expected that the King and Queen of Spain will visit Windsor during the Kaiser's visit. NEW YORK, Tuesday. The United States Government, intending to prevent the inflation of American contractors' prices, will shortly invite tenders at Cardiff for £200,000 worth of coal for the fleet nrnreedine for a cruise in the Pacific, proceeding^ pLYMOUTHi Wednes . The Customs revenue for Septembei was £3882, as compared with £2742 ii September, 1906. The Taranaki Branch of the Libera and Labour Federation, passed a reso lution generally approving of the Fac tories Act Amendment Bill, except sec tion regarding the population limit which it was' thought should b 10,000.