BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 447, 15 November 1916, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

PACIFIC GAISI.F COM PA XV. (Australian and S.Yj. Cable A>mi.) btIXDON. Nov. b). Tlte Pacific Cable during I'do-lo showed a surplus nf CI 7.02 t. This ,< l.lie first time the cable has prodmvd a sui'i)lus after paying sinking fund and annuities, 'flic total paying traffic 10 and ''•.■uia Australasia was -. Iw'l.1 w 'l. 110 words, r.against -1,-I(V!.H!)S during (!,, • previous year. There was also a considerate! * quantify of non -paying mailer, olu-dlv free messages for wnnnded soldiers-. xi-w wiiMCLKs.N skrvick. Received (! |i.in.. Nov. I lII'.. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Marconi Coiiipany a nil n'm Jiipanese Government inaugurate on Thursday a commercial wireless service between California. Honolulu and •Japan. The uaiis-Pacilic lariff will be lis Id lull rate and Is Sd deferred. comp.'O'cd with the pros,an rale of 'is. IRISH PARKR S(TPRI<>SFD. 'I itf Skibberecii police suppressed I lie National Ist newspaper '•Soiirlievusia.'" XF.W JAPANESE BATTLESHIP. Router's Telegrams. Received 1.3(1 a.m., Nov. \'>u\. TOK'IO, Nov. 1-1. A new battleship of .'i!,ntlO tons, a speed of twenty-throe knots and mounted with twelve loiif'oon inch guns, has been launched at Kobe. STEAM KR LOST. YAXCOUYLR, Nov. 11, In a terrific gale in the Gulf of Alaska a steamer was I»>.-1 and ten were drowned.