GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

. LEAD MARKET. .United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copy right, J LONDON, Aug. 13. Leads imports are 20,642 ions. Australian 415 tons, exports 93/8 tons. INQUEST VERDICT. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 13. The Coroner at the resumed Mcoplntm inquest said he was satisfied the machine was not overloaded. There was no evidence of faulty material or bad workmanship. The jury returned a verdict that the deaths were due to the machine breaking up in the air, the cause being unknown.

OBITUARY. LONDON, Aug. 13. Obituary.—Rliodc/s Hawtyn Cobb, formerly senior partner of Alining and Cobb, Australian and Meat Produce merchants. TRADE FIGURES. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 13. Imports decreased 8,315,000, exports 15,773,000, re-exports 1,306,000. Tiie pnaiMipu! decrease in imports were:—-Meat 831,000, non-dutiable food and drink 1,189,000, raw cotton 1,798,000, vehicles 508,000, exports coal 793,000 Iron steel manufactures thereof 1,148,000, machinery 626,000, cotton yards manuactures 5,615,000, wool ditto 2,278,000, other textile manufactures 767,000 apparel 550,000. Increases in imports wood arid timber 516,000, oils and lats 1.327,000. TYPHOON AT JAPAN. TOKIO, Aug. .13. The typhoon passed over quickly. The death roll is small owing to timely warning and the precautions. At Nagasaki thousands of 'buildings were damaged, and the telegraphs and telephones wrecked. Forty wrecks are reported along the coast-.

TALLOW SALES. LONDON, Aug. 13. At the tallow sales 1250 casks were offered and 763 were sold; MEAT MARKET. LONDON, Aug. 13. Quotations: Mutton fine 31s, mutton medium 25s 6d. Beef fine 355, beef medium 25s 6d. STEAMER AFIRE. LONDON, August 13. The steamer Brook wood wirelesses that the fire is serious, but is being held in check. The steamer is two hundred miles south of Port Louis. INGENIOUS FRAUD. POSTAGE FEES AVOIDED. BERLIN, July 30. A young man of iCovno, Lithuania, udio at present is in gaol, discovered a new of avoiding postage fees, bntsed on the regulation whereby unstamped letters are returned to the sender. The youth addressed all his correspondence to fictitious addresses, 'and instead of writing his own address on the hack of the envelope he gave the address to which lie desired that the letter should be delivered. Consequently when the Post Office thought it was returning the letter it was really forarding it to its proper destination.