Late Cabled Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 307, 31 December 1904, Page 2

Late Cabled Items.

Tlis Shaw SaviH steamer lonic, from .London via the Cape, sails from ll'obart at 1 p.m. to-day for Wellington. She has on boaid 483 passengers for New Zealand. Tho War Ollico anticipates that the re-'aiinaiucnit orders will occupy about 20 months in fi( lilineiit. Woolwich Arsenal is executing an Mian order, for 132 18J-poundcr field artillery and 00 12 J-pounder horsfc artillery quick-lirefs. Teri-ilic heat continues throughout Now South Wales ; 110 degrees at Alhury is the largest recorded there ; Bourko recorded 120, ami Moulmein 122, Binds are dropping dead from exhaustion at the latter place. A meeting of over-sea ship-owners at Sydney on Friday; decided, in viow of the ltetrictions' imposed by the Seagoing Uarrimge of Good's Act, to impose a value primage of 6s 3d per cent, over and above ordinary freight as from Ist January* This Is a p-elimi-nary arrangement, and later on a schedule will be prepared setting forth the primage on various articles l of merchandise. Shippers and owners of goads must mako a declaration showing the nature of the goods shipped, for the purpose of lixing tho primage cgarge.