GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 31

GENERAL CABLES

BERLIN January 10. Count von Bulow, the Imperial Chancellor, in a .speech, promised to impose a protective tariff, so as to give the pro. duce of the eastern provinces supremacy over the western, when the canals, including those from Stettin to Berlin, are completed. LONDON, January 10. The five Indian regiments which are being paid by the Imperial Treasury to relieve the Imperial troops on garrison duty, go to Mauritius, Singapore, Hong, kong and Ceylon. LONDON, January 11. A Royal Commission has been appointed to report on safeguards against the presence of arsenic in food and drink. NEW YORK, January 9. The gamble in railway stocks in Wall street continues. Two million shares were sold on T**es_ clay, enormous profits being realised. NEW YORK. January 10. There are two hundred thousand influenza patients in New xork, 100,000 in Chicago and 70,000 in. Cleveland. The weather is mild. President McKinlev is amongst the patients. CON ST ANTINOPLE, January 10. A death from bubonic plague has been reported here. PARIS, January 9. M. Desehand, the Opposition candidate, has been elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, defeating M. Brisson, the nominee of the Premier (M. W aldeck-Rousseau). SYDNEY, January 10. A destructive bush fire has occurred in the Riverina district. Many thou- ■ sand acres of grass and a large quantity of stacked and standing wheat has been destroyed. The Newcastle coal difficulty is practically settled. Only two collieries are not working. An unprecedented demand for coal and a famine exists at Adelaide and Melbourne, where the price is up to £8 a ton. SYDNEY, January 11. The convention and summer school of the Australasian Students' Union is he. ing held at Bowral, eighty miles south of Sydney. Messrs Crump and Mawson, New Zealanders, are among the visiting delegates. Sir William Lyne (Premier of New South Wales) has instructed the AgentGeneral (Mr H. Copeland) to sign the agreement with the Eastern Extension Company in connection with the Cape cable. This provides for a reduction in rates from February Ist to os 6d per . word for ordinary messages, 2s 6d a word for Government messages and is 4cf per word for Press association messages. SYDNEY, January 14. Jacky Undeirwood, one of the blacks concerned in the Breelong murders, was executed to - day at the gaol at Dubbo. Death was instantaneous. Over £IOOO has been collected in aid of the Imperial gunners injured by the explosion of a gun recently at Moore Park. MELBOURNE, January 10. A beginning will be made next week to lay the portion of th© Cape cable between Durban and! Mauritius. There are already ten thousand applications for old age pensions. The War Office has cabled to the Government stating that it is now supplying all oats requirements in England. ADELAIDE, January 11. The French mail steamers will in future not call at Adelaide in voyaging to Australia, the contract time being not sufficient to allow of a visit since Fremantle was made a port of call. PERTH, January 11. A severe earthquake has. been experienced over a large area in the northwest. The shock lasted two minutes. Buildings were shaken, hut no serious damage was done. ALBANY, J anuary 11. Rear-Admiral Beaumont, the new commander on the Australian naval station, arrived by the Oroya to-day. His staff arrived at Brisbane a few days ago by the Vancouver liner Warrimoo. BRISBANE, January 11. Nine inches cf rain have fallen at Bowen. The railway is flooded. Two unknown swagsmen were drowned while crossing the Burdekin river at Clare.