VARIOUS CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 15 July 1904, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

f- UNION BANK, LONDON, July 13, Tha Union Bank report recommends a dividend of ten per cent. ' A sum of £IO,OOO is set apart for reduction of bank premises account is the colonies, £4OOO has been added to the Officers' Guarantee and Pro- . vident Fund, £25,000 added to ro«berve, and £26,000 carried forward. JiEW SOUTH WALES BIRTH-RATE (Received July 14, 10.17 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 14. "The vital statistics for the half--year show that the birth rate has improved 3f per cent, and deaths ■ liavo decreased 9 per cent compared with the corresponding period of las-t - year, MINOR ITEMS, Tho late Whitaker Wright's estate (•valued at £148,200. There have been IGO fatalities this fear through avalanche climbing accidents in the Swiss and French • Alps. The French Parliamentary Coinmit- „ Ite on old age pensions estimates the cost to the State for the first year at seventy million francs. The New South Wales maize crop , gelded 6,836,000 bushels, an aver;f /age of 30.1 per acre, the highest .yield since 1894. , Butter made in New South Wales during the year amounted to 88,- ■ 727,000 pounds, an increase of nearly nine million pounds on last year. * Colonel Sir Howard Vincent, su|>ported Ivy several Liberal I tuckers, ias introduced a bill in the House of gommons excluding criminal aliens.

Tho Dominion House of Commons, by an overwhelming majority, defeated the pro]K>sal that the supreme command of the militia be rested in the Governor-in-Council.

Five thousand five hundred American meat packers have struck. The whole trade is practically slopped. Beef in New York has already risen three half-pence per pound. A sensation lias been c tt used in Jfew York by the announcement of the marriage of Senator Clari;, the "Montana copper king," to a penniless lady of 25 years, whom he educated in Washington and Paris. Clark is 65 years of age.

•iPoorold chest it heaves and rattles, Tender throat and tonsils red ; my swag from 'neath the bunk the bottle, Ted. "Yes, sireu, the squatters use it, ' Shearers, rousers, rich and- poor ; ' iPitch the whiskey into blazes, Give me Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.* 2S

JHOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.

'Chest and stomach complaints. "The source and centre of almost ev•ery ailment is impurity of the blood. DishxTg'e this poison and the tlisnasa departs. Holloway's Tills exercise the inestimable power »of thoroughly cleansing each component part of the blood, and enabling this fluid to perform its important functions. They cope most Successfully with chest diseases, gtomach complaints, liver disordijsrs and many other maladies, which ■were once the besetting dangers af

mankind at certain seasons. 'I he directions for use enable everyone 3*' Xo regulate the operation of these !- pills with the greatest nicety. Chron- '■ . ijc Invalids, nervous sufferers, and •, <jil whom other treatment has fail-

"'led to relieve, arc respectfully inri' ylted to try Holloway's celebratfc*d medicine, which will strengthI and cure them.* 1 k*-

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