WISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12665, 19 January 1912, Page 5

WISH & FOREIGN.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) e (Received January 18, 8.5 a.m.) ■■ LONDON, January 18. The Hamburg- America steamship Com- ipany,has decided a dividend of 9 per;'.cent.. The profits • )ast " year were •■ £2,020,000, as compared with £1,830,000..[ 1, for the previous year. The company is increasing; its capital by £1,250,000 in view of the opening 'of the Panama . Canal. r (Received January 19, 10.40 a.m.) A snowfall in the Midlands lasted for \$ thirty-six hours* and trains have been seriously delayed. Tons of salt were used lor thawing purposes. The weight of the ice coating the wires in many ? localities 'dragged 'the telegt^jJh. poles down. -, .; ti ■!"■'%' .'■'■'.*. ''■,■■■•' ' ; Cardiff shipowners, being aggrieved at' strictures alleging over-insurance, have resolved to transfer the registry of their vessels, 1 ' aggregating '70,000 tons, to London, thus deposing Cardiff from the third position, to that of sixth or seventh shipping port in the United Kingdom. '* BERLIN, January 18. The Hamburg-American Shipping dividend is 9 per* cent. There was a profit of £2,020,000, compared with , £1,830,000 in 1910. ROME, January 18,. Introvini, a jeweller, placed a bag of \ four /hundred ..thousand francs worth of ' jewels momentarily on a waiting room table at Turin. When he entered the . train he found he was carrying a similar • .- substituted bag. The thieves escaped.' '" NEW YORK, January 18. An engine exploded at the Coal and , Iron Company's power house,. Central^ City, Kentucky, and killed four persons."'! Another Yofkmah is- fatally injured. £