GENERAL CABLES.
By Telegraph. —Press .Association.— Copyright. NEW CABLE ACROSS BASS STRAIT. Mej,bodbne, May 18. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company intends to lay an entirely new cable between Victoria and Tasmania at a cost of .£60,000. AN UNSUITABLE COALING STATION. London, May 17. In the House of Lords, the Earl of Hopetoun, Paymaster - General (ExGovernor of Victoria), said that, owing to a shifting bar, the Government would be nnable to convert Durban (Natal) into a coaling station. Beblin. May 17. The German newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung states that the treaty defining the Russian and Austrian epherio3 ofinfluence In the Balkans lasts until 1902, and will then be renewable automaticallyA slump in blankets is advertised by Mr G. Smith, the Cash Draper. Cnba street, he having purohaaad eight bales that had been seized in transit at a vary substantial dlsconnt, and as his stook is already very heavy, he has decided to offer them at the following lov prices—Single bed blankets, Ss Ud. os Hd, 7s lid, 8s lid per Liable bed blankets, 9a lid, 12s 6d, 14s 6d. 16s 81. Beat twilled colonial blankets —Single bed, l»s bd; double bed, 19s 6d. Inspection always solicited at O. Smith’s, the Cash Draper, Cota street. *' •
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 3437, 19 May 1898, Page 3
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