GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4308, 18 March 1901, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

v INDIA’S POPULATION. LONDON. March 15

The census taken in India shows the population to he 294,000,000, despite excessive declines in the native States owing to visitations of famine and plague. ■’

DEFENCES OF GIBRALTAR. LONDON, March 15. Artillery exports declare that the British gira-s at Gibraltar dominate the Spar.-' ish guns on the mainland, thus preventing effective bombardment of the new harbour at the fortress.

I EXPLORATION OF AUSTRALIA, j . ADELAIDE, March 16. i Professor Baldwin Spencer and Mr J. F. Sillen have loft on a Central Australian exploring expedition. INSURANCE LOSSES. ADELAIDE, March ‘'o. Grasby’s large grocery store has been destroyed by fire. , The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO- The insurances- include £2OOO in the National of New Zealand. The building is also insured hi the New Zealand Insurance Company. = AN AUSTRALIAN’S INVENTION. ■ (Received March 17 5.98 p.m ) I NEW YORK, March 16.' ; The American Steel Trust has purchased the American rights' of Mephah Ferguson’s patent process for making iron pipes. , : Mr Ferguson, a well-known Australian engineer, has the pipe contract for the Coolgarclie (West Australia) water supply scheme. INTERCOLONIAL TRAIFFS. (Received March 17, 5.28 p.m.) OTTAWA, March 16. Tho Hon W. Mulock, PostmasterGeneral, has been authorised, during his visit to Australia, in connection with ’ tho opening of the Federal Parliament, to confer with the Commonwealth Government with reference to intercolonial and Imperial tariffs. CARNEGIE’S MILLIONS. (Received March 17, 5.28 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. Mr Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire. ;has given a million sterling to New York libraries, and two hundred .thensand to St. Louis libraries. A RETURNING NEW ZEALANDER. (Received March 16. 7.22 p.iii.) • SYDNEY, March 16. Mr Arthur 11. Adams, the New Zealand war correspondent in China, was among tho passengers by the Mokoia, : which sailed-for Wellington to-day. ENGLISH MAILS. SYDNEY, March. 17. Auckland and Southern portions of an English mail were dispatched by the Mokoia, which sailed for Wellington on Saturday. ( COAL LUMPERS LOCKED u'UT. r SYDNEY, March 17. The coal lumpers have been locked out-.bjiiitke owners of steam collie"?.: Work aboard the San Francisco mad liner Ventura is, however, being proceeded with.