GENERAL CABLE NEWS
Sir Henry Campbell-Baunorman spent a quiet day on Sunday, und obtained considerable sleep. The murder of Count X'otocki, Governor of Galicia, by a Ruthonian student named Siezyuski, at Lemberg, in Austria, is stated to have been proinpto 1 by political motives. A treaty has been signed regulating tho frontior of the French Congo and the German Camoroons. It is estimated that aliens who quitted tthe _ United States last year took away sixty millions sterling. The erection of tho Federal smallarms factory at in Now South AVales, is to be commenced at once. Tho estimated cost is £70,000. Commissioner McKie, head of the Salvation Army in Australia, has received General Booth's instructions to farewell Australia.
Efforts by buyers to "boar" tho price of Australian hops all round are resented by Tasmanian growers, who intend to ask the Gommonwoalth Government to increase tho import <duty by a shilling per pound.
The stock returns show the number of horses in Victoria to be 424,648; cattle, 1,842.805; sheep, 14,116,734. In ench case the figures are a rocord. Shcop increased by 1,209,000. Burglars crynamitod a safe at Oooma Railway Station. Now South Wales, and secured £149. The steamer Alderfham has arrived Thursday Island from HSongkon/r with a Chinese member of the crew suffering from small-pox. It is expected that the steamer Karon, which met with an accident to her machinery off the Tasmanian coaet \last week, will reach Sydney to-mor-row.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6495, 15 April 1908, Page 5
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238GENERAL CABLE NEWS New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6495, 15 April 1908, Page 5
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