CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3616, 6 January 1906, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

W Abridged Items. Bsbun, Jan. 3. General Moltke has reluctantly accepted the position of Chief-in-staff, after the Kaiser promising to personally assist him.

Eondon, Jan. , The Commissioner of Agriculture of VLginia (U.S.) offers the A XflrjL-to settle BSflßty thousand Eondon poor on ■fflSßginian fttrme. " ’ Melbourne, Jan. 4. ■/ is an uneasy feeling in shipping circles owing to the dis- % satisfaction of deck officers and j stewards concerning the rates ol payi “/Australasian” estimates the wheat yield at 32,386,000 bushels, an increase of a'- quarter of a million over yHetd, and an average of 10.41. Local requirements ai j sc’, derm at 7J75* OOC: ‘ bushels. The rurplus for export at the present market value of the yield is about fayfhooo. The ComsfcbnWcdlth revenue for the half-year k /a9,0c0 less than the half of last year, but it is nearly above the Treasurer's *3t’m-rti.

f - ADBI.AXDI?, Jan. 4. The Government geologist, after inspecting the ftilmng districts of the northern territory and putting down bofts, report* that although

thousands haV* he«a spent in' mining, the-'itdtee only has been . sorted. Bores dhow gold in every caaf from . 300 to 500 fc&t down. /There are good shows of copper but it is (Essentially a gold country.