GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

> i ' , 1 V :#r; IBLSGBIPn—MESS . ASSOCIATION—COPYBIQHT. . STANDARD FOR CANNED MEATS, (Rec;-Jan.;5,'.4.-35 p.m.) i-v ' , , - > , "<Sydney,-.January 4. Handlers of Australian cainied meats,al-. I leged that the Tfrp.de. was -accepting inferior American'meats > for • the; mercantile- ■ marine. >- Mr. Coghlan, New r j3outh Wales : mterviowfed the Board! and ■ . received an assurakee' that' the standard re-:' ; cently in not bo I<swired. FIyANCO-BpiriSH EXHIBITION. ' ► Sydney, January 4. The Franoo-Britiph-Exhibition aut)iontiM have appointed an osport, Mr. Marks; who : is now visiting Australia, to ropresent them 1 m giving wine-growers- mformation relativo 1 to the use of Australian at-the Exhibh tion. '■ ■: ' r ' ' ■ RESIGNATION OF A COMMONER. \ , ■ Lonticn, January 8. • ; Mr. W. A.-M'Arthur; Liberal member of the House of Commonf for the St. Austell Dmsiou of Cornwall smce 1887, has.resigned hi? i scat... :. r Mt. ' M'Arthur, like the Now South Wales and j. Ffederal polititian, iiir William M'Millan, is a member of the firm of W. and A. M'Arthur, " London and Sydney, which has.lately gone into i liquidation. Mi'. M' Arthur was'a Lord of the 1 I Treasury in the Liberal Government of 1892-35. 1 He was born, at' Sydney in 1857, but has long , i been resident at Hpme". : '' ' ; . :' ■ '-. , COST OF A' DIVORCE. , ' /. ' , i ,- ' Melbpurno, January 4. i The costs of the, petitioner in the divorce case, Wallace v. Wallace and Dr. Strong ! (husband's petition, in which a decree nisi p was pronounced) amounted to over £1100. MORE PLAGUE AT SYDNEY. : . 1 Sydney, January 4, 1 :• J A dairyman at;Hurstville, nine miles from r Sydney, has been attacked' by plague. Tho. ' case has evident connection with tho out--1 break at Marrickville. V V ' ' REDUCED BUTTER EXPORTS FROM J VICTORIA. • , ! . Melbourne, January 4. Oversea butter exports for tho year were nearly 3,000,00011) less ; than in the previous | year, the decreaso in' value being £91,184. ' NEW, SOUTH WALES WHEAT YIELD. . ■; Sydney, January. 4. i The " Herald " estimates the wheat yield . 1 at 8,632,000 bushels, an average' of' a- littla - r oyer five bushels to the acre. " COMMONWEALTH REVENUE. , ■- Melbourne, January 4. a The Federal revenue forthe half-year ii totalled £6,034,683, an ; ; increase, of ii £1,202,000. ; . VICTORIAN SURPLUS. ,f g Melbourne, January 4. The Victorian Premier, tho Hon. T. Bent, y states that the half-year. c ended with a sur? plus of £260,000. Hp expects that the surr , plus at the end of tho' financial year will be nearly a/'million. !- Last year Victoria had a surplus of .£812,000, The "Economist" alleged that' Premier Bent had nndcr-estimated tho revenue in order to J produce a big surplus,,.ln'his Budget speech d in October, Mr. Borit anticipated' a surplus of jC.H2.797, or little oyer'half the surplus now °- estimated,' ;; d A TJSMPEIVANCE ADVOCATE. . ;■ Sydney, January 4. Tho services of , Mr.«Bruntnoll, gonoral • S secretary of the Now South Wales Alliance, have been sccuredTfor tlio tortpcrance camh paign in England.