Various Cabled Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7718, 21 January 1905, Page 2

Various Cabled Items.

RIVAL CABLE COMPANIES. . | MELBOURNE, Jan. 90. *^ A statement lias been pubUuned in the press that as the Pacific and Eastern Companies are both losing money there may be a Pooling of receipt/*, cessation of competition, , and the raising of the cable rate*.' : it is is incidentally suggested that ■* postponement of the Pacific Cable Conference may anise from a wish , to place the Eastern Company in . such a position that it cannot Ml to agree to a pool. _ The manager of the Eastern E*> tension Company, interviewed, mid . the suggestion that Ms company * might combine in the raising rates was out of; its power, the ■- prouidlng that oneasTrnte ; ft reduced it cannot be raised. |b> cause of that agreement competi- m. tion was now acute. The rata* f _ cannot be raised unless the Govern- >"' , anents toterestod in the agreement *"l 1 consent, and it would require somel ;5? m ? as w «Ung as an act at % \ IMrliament to do that. ■'■•ti? 1 'l*e I'ostmaster-General declined '"T to say anything regarding the ca- .U , we pooling rumours or a forthcoming Pacific Cable conference, and & - e i '' " Somet W«>S may turn up * , .which warrants me in makinc aoms , tvpruSDntfttions,". "—«» •"»» 5 AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES.; SYDNEY, Jan, 20. > , ine Lord Major's relief couuaCt* r toe reports that there have been so (■plications by sufferers from the > bush fires wanting immediate relief* ' EARTH HUNGER, LONDON, Jan. U>. . Germany. America, «nd anotfcsr, Jt jirtower are trying to purchase the 1\ privately-owned uninhabited Canois. ,■* ete belonging to the Azores Group. '*! as a coaling or Marconi station, FISCAL FtNESSK. Ip LONDON, Jan. 19. -Mr Chamborlnin, in a letter, say* - *-" There is no difference in princi- - jflei tatweon Mr Balfour and myself, • v only, one of method and tactxa" ■• „ . LONIiON, Jan. 20 sa« ,t UUU u' " ,,ottkiß * ttt **"■*• _i. 5 *" w Scare w *» ctaptrap and rhodomontede. The outcrv for hts expulsion was protection in a disguised form. The power to deport criminal aliens was strictly enJoreed, and sanitary and factory ,£«? , W ! OuW Buffici «>tly meet other dirncultic&i GERMAN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION (Received Jan. 20, 11,1 p.m.) _ , . BERUN, Jan. 20. 1 A - It is intended to greatly extend A Is 0 «&"*! Im **«l naval yards .*. ** Wilhemshaven, Kiel and DanW, .win be employed, PLAGUED RAT. .. (Received Jan. 21, 0.10 a.m.) Another plagued rat has heat found at the North Coast Con* luiny's wharf. ' +*w A SYDNEY SENSATION. $ (Received Jon. 21. 0.14 a in » ' , SYDNEY, Jan. 90. A sensation was caused in the city --1 q telegram from «,<, Governor* * Secretary asWng (hat two detocu\m De sent to Mossvale. where Sir f. ,i!f'« , Hows °n '* staying, to meet tiH Melbourne express. There wcra rumours that a big force of police A met the train at Rodferu, but has transpired thm several' tn6u* \ m sand Treasury bills were forwarded \ lor Sir Harry Hawson's signature, and a detective was wanted to a£ company the messenger Iningtafca, ':■ Uiem back to town. «iu g «HK^ A BANKING REPORT. > SYDNEY, Jan. 20. < 1 he City Bank has declared a divi- | dend lor the half year of 2| per M cent., ad;ltsl £IOOO torosorvo, and curried £IBOO forward. The chairman, referring to the reduction in llK) dividend, said that although general business was satisfactory mid well maintained affairs of State nhd political and' commercial' mat- v ters wore unsettled, giving little op- {f.* portunity for enterprise or the ex- ll tension of busjness. 3