GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6177, 8 April 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. LONDON, April 5. Queon Alexandra has left London to join King Edward at Toulon. The Dowager-Empress of Russia, who has been visiting her sister, Queen Alex* andra, has started for Biarritz. MADRID, April 5. The Rio Tinto Copper Company, of Spain, last year made a profit of two millions sterling! and declared a dividend of 110 per cent. NEW YORK, April 5. Statistics published in "Washington show that 1,200,000. decrees of divorce have been granted in the United' States in twenty years, averaging seventy divorces to every 100,000 of the population. fin this message there appears to be something missing. According to population the average should be, roughly, taking- tho number of divorces as correct, about IS per 1000.1 SYDNEY, April 6. Air Carruthors. Premier, promised a deputation that he would seriously consider the holding of an International Exhibition ah Sydney in IDIO, at an estimated cost of £300,000. A movement is afoot to establish woollen mills in Sydney, with a capital of £IOO,OOO. It is understood that th© required amount- has been subscribed, half locally and half in London. MELBOURNE, April 6. 1 The first good rains this year are falling.