GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2390, 4 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

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SEAWORTHY

United Pkess Association. Copyright LONDON. Jan. 1. The steamer Paparoa has been surveyed and found seaworthy, and she has sailed for London. SOUTH AFRICAN MEAT TRADE. A Outage firm is closing its Capetown branch, as South Africa is now supplying herself with meat. WEAVERS’ STRIKE COLLAPSED. Tiie- Hebden Bridge (Yorkshire) weavers’ strike has collapsed. It lasted 42 weeks, and cost the weavers’ amalgamation £23.000.

lAiAHGI?A'JTON TO NEAY SOUTH WALES. During 1908 ihe New South AVales Government granted 3090 assisted passages. THE BRITISH PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE. A sum of £20.000.000 sterling,mostly under wills, was entrusted to the control of the Public Trustees during tlie first year of the existence of the office. - : BRITISH REVENUE. The British quarterly revenue was £33,256,000,Cu5t0ms yielding £7.G36._ 000 ; excise £10,170.000, stamps £2,060,000. PUGILISM—NEAYSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE. SYDNEY, Jan. 2. As a result of the Jolmson-Burns contest the papers are Hooded with correspondence for and against boxing displays. A SMELTERS’ STRIKE. ADELAIDE, Jan. 2. The men employed at the Proprietary Alines ‘Smelting Works, PortPirie, have come out in sympathy with their comrades on the Barrier. The works are carefully pickotted. THE BRITISH I’AR ld A AIENT. (Received Jan. 4, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2. King Edward- opens Parliament in full state. Old) AGE PENSIONS. The first payment of old age pensions worked smoothly, the rush of applicants being below expectations. A TRANSVAAL LOAN. The Transvaal is issuing, with Imperial guarantee, a four millions 3 per cent loan at a minimum of 96. A LOAN FOR FINLAND. Finland is issuing £.890.000 four and a half nor cent-loan at 92].

A NEAY PLANET. NEAY YORK, Jan. 2. C. E. Pickering, director of tlie Harvard University, obtained photographic evidence of the existence of a new major planet beyond. Neptune, at a point in the constellation Gemini.