VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 106, 9 May 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

DALGETY AND CO. (Received May 8, 9.36 a.m.) . LONDON, May 7. ". . Messrs Dalgety and Co. have de- . dared and interim dividend of five ' per cent. t - , AN IMPUDENT FRAUD. BERLIN, May 7. An American named Wagener has been arrested in Berlin on a charge of fraud.' He made £SOO daily in selling an electric belt which iexperta declare to be useless. A COMMISSIONER RESIGNS. MELBOURNE, May 7. Dr. Ham, Health Commissioner, • lias resigned as a protest against ■ any reduction of salaries in his ' department. * HOSPITAL SATURDAY. jk (Received May 9, 1.8 a.m.) ■ ' ■ SYDNEY, May 8. There was fine weather for Hospital Saturday. At closing last Blgbt a total of £4124 had been collected, being £351 above Jast year's gmount, and additional returns are yet to come.

. COLD STORAfiE AND fJARLUAiJE. (Received May 8. 10.29 a.m.) LON'POX, May 8. Afc a meeting of the Cold Storage and Ire Association. Mr Lance. ■- New South Wales commercial acuit readti paper dealing with the growth • and influence, of refrigeration on ■ -; Australian trade. He especially emperatunw for the storage and carl. peratur* ; for the storage ,and carriage of produce, with zero as the standard for ■butter, as in Am- • % .erica. 3IOUNT LYALL MIKE. MELBOI'KXE, May 8. ''The Mount Lyall Gold Mining fCoaaiaiiy has declared a dividend of : fflfteea. pen" I' t>r sh" 1 " 0 - payable on I June 351*.