GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 81, 25 March 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

IHE WRECKED GERMAN LINER. Received 24th 1130 p.m. ;' Paris, March 24The Laeiazo is sunk in one hundred fatheras. COJtMERCIAL TRAVELLERS. London, March 23. Mr. D. Lloyd-George, president of the Board of Trade, presided at a meeting convened to promote the formation of M International Commercial Travellers' Association at the Hague. Lord StrathCon* was the Australian representative. French and German and other delegates heartily supported the movement. ; SALVATION ARMY EMIGRANTS I Ottawa, March 23. The Salvation Army authorities in Canada repudiate responsibility for the unemployment of immigrant''. They Hectare that they found positions for all their emigrants, and court the fullest enquiry into the matter. THE LATE MARQUIS LINLITHGOW. London. March 23. The late Marqais of Linlithgow bequeathed £2OOO to Mr. Wallington. formerly his private secretary in Australia.

* THE SHIPBUILDING STRIKE. ' London. March 23.* Mr. Barnes, general secretary of the Society of Engineers, in a speech at London, said the shipbuilding engineers Of the north-east of England had been wrongly advised in rejecting the term' offered for the settlement of the .strike, inasmuch as arbitration would have yielded better results than a strike fought on a falling market. The engineers' vote, he added, had weakened th« influence of the trades unions. SHIPPING COMPANY'S PROFITS. Berlin, March 23. The annual report of the Norddeut-■cher-Lloyd Shipping Company shows thai In 1907 the profits ' amounted to five and a quarter million marks. (The value of a mark is lO'/al)-

. GRAM IN* SAX FRAXCISCO. San Francisco. March 23. Ban Francisco newspapers declare that the "graft" now practised in connection with the re-building of the city is worse than what existed under Ruef •ad Schmidt. SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION'. Durban, March 23. Mr. Moor, Premier of Natal, in his speech at Durban, urged the appointment of a South African Commission to atudy the federation unification pro Menu. THE WORLD'S WHEAT. London, March 23. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,500,01X1 quarters; for the Continent, 2,785,0000 quarters; Atlantic shipments, 136,000 quarters; Pacific shipments, 14,000 quarters.