GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 32

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, January 7. Weddel’s annual review of the meat ' trade anticipates improved demand in 1905, and says Britain will have to depend more than ever on supplies from i Australasia and Argentina. Prices are ! likely to be somewhat higher than in 1904. The Lick Observatory has discovered, by means of the Crossley reflector, a sixth, satellite of Jupiter. , V ice-Admiral Dubassoff, who was ap- ( pointed temporarily to relieve Admiral : ELaznakoff during the latter’s illness, ! now permanently replaces Admiral Kaznakoff as Russian representative on I the Commission which is sitting at | Paris to inquire into the North Sea outrage by the Baltic fleet last October. 1

In accordance •with the decision announced by Admiral Sir John Fisher, the First Sea Lord, to withdraw thirty-one old warships from commission, thus economising in the cost of maintenance and repairs, twenty-nine non-effective warships are going to Queensferry to be sold at convenient occasions.

The Central Committee appointed m connection with, the London uneiTiployed has adopted emigration as a part of the permanent machinery for rel'e', selecting the likeliest good settlers and excluding casuals. The “Daily Mail” states that the Suez Canal Company will reduce the dues 5 pore cent, per ton in i ft. Mi. LONDON, January 8.

Tile American merchant marine report recently presented to the House of Representatives proposes subsidies amounting, it is estimated, in the first year to £600,000 sterling; the delivery tax to bo increased from 3d to 8d per ton. on foreign shinning, compared with 4d on American. There is little pros-

pect of legislation in. this direction during 1905. LONDON, January 9. Tidal floods have done enormous damage to the piers and promenades at Scarborough, Yarmouth and Ramsgate. BERLIN, January 8. Major Meistsr, one of the German officers operating against the Hereros in German South-West Africa, captured Grosnabas after a fifty hours’ desnerato engagement. The German forces had a thousand casualties. The losses suffered by the Hereros are unknown. CALCUTTA. January 9. The Ameer’s eldest son, Innyat Ulla, who has been on a visit to the Viceroy, has hidden Lord Curzon farewell and returned to Afghanistan.

NEW YORK, January 7. The United States Government has I delivered an ultimatum to the Govern- ! ment of Venezuela demanding the fulfilment before March of V enezuela’s obligations under the decision of the Hague Tribunal, and the remedying of ; other grievances. I it America’s demands are not- met. a I naval demonstration will be made., and | the Venezuelan Customs will be seized. ! '1 he guns recently mounted b\- General Castro. President of Venezuela, at La Guaira and Puerto Cabello include nine 20-centimetre Cruesots, originally constructed for the Boers. SYDNEY, January 7. The annual report of the shipping master states that 1934 foreign-going intercolonial vessels, with a ton nag: of 5.427,000 tons, arrived in Sydney last yeeir. Though there is a decrease in the number of ships arriving, the tonnage shows a considerable increase. SYDNICY, January 7. The Premier (Mr Carrutliers) is out of town, and nothing is obtainable about the statement cabled ou the aut’nor-

ity of the London “Standard” that New South Wales would shortly issue a loan of two millions. Recently Mr Garruthers mentioned that he intended placing a two million loan iii January, a million of which was required to pay Treasury bills m Aiarch. It is considered that this is what the “Standard ’ refers to. SYDNEY, January 7. The School Commissioners have issued a repori on commercial technical education. The report deals with the systems in vogue on the Continent, but in view of a fuller report to be made shortly, no definite recommendations are made. A doctor sent to Clarence river by the Board of Health has diagnosed the disease which a natient is suffering from as true plague.

PERTH, January 7. The report of the .Royal Commission in connection with the Great Boulder Pe Mine is a lengthy document. The Commission finds that it has been the policy of the directors to rehgiou.-dy prevent any information of the working and true position of the mine becoming known, and keeping many important matters from the knowledge of shareholders. It would appear, says the- report, that tho chairman of directors, Mr Frank Gardner, and some of the directors have throughout advanced their own interests, and shown an utter disregard of the- interests of the shareholders. The Commission makes a recommendation for preserving the interests of shareholders in the mines, and preventing a recurrence of the abuses disclosed by the inquiry. HOBART, January 7. Wreckage, including the manifest of the cargo of the barque Bricrholm, has been found at Port Davey, on the southwest coast, of Tasmania. The coast for

some distance is strewn with wreckage and cargo. The Briemolm, hound from London to Hobart., is 180 days out.