GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1916, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERS WANTED. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, August, 14. The Government arc inviting applications from chemists or chemical engineers to fill fifty positions in explosive factories in Britain. QUEENSLAND'S SUGAR'OUTPUT. Brisbane, August 14! The superintendent of experimental stations, estimates Queensland's sugar output this season at 180,000 tons, \ alued at £3,348,000. FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION. London, August 13. Thirteen people wore killed by an explosion at the Ashington Colliery, Northumberland. -FATAL TROLLY COLLISION . New York, August 13. Twenty-five persons were killed and sixty injured by a. trolly collision at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. FEDERAL MINING -PROHIBITION^. Melbourne, 'August 14. 'A regulation is being'issued prohibiting any agreement for the sale of a mining or metallurgical company entered into with a person not a naturalised Britisher residing within the Empire within the Minister's consent. INFANTILE PARALYSIS. - New York, August 14. Infantile paralysis _ continues and accounts for fifty deaths daily. The most prominent victim is Mrs. Page, daughter-in-law of the American Ambassador in London, who died after a few hours' illness. 6UGAR PRODUCTION. Melbourne, August 15. The total production of sugar is about , 2000 tons less than estimated, and it will | be nepessary for th<j Commonwealth to between March and June 70,000 tons. TRANSPORT OF AUSTRALIAN WHEAT. Melbourne, August 15. At a meeting of the Wheat Board, Mr. Hughes stated that he had succeeded in chartering a hundred vessels to carry wheat at below the ruling rates