Various Cabled Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7719, 23 January 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

A BAD YEAR. LONDON, Jan. 20. The report of Robert Campbell and Sons shows a loss on the year of £1683, ufter paying debenture interest. The directors, in view of , the improving prospects, propose to i transfer 115000 from the reserve and pay a dividend of 2J per cent., and carry forward £1570. IN SUSPENSE. LONDON, Jan. 20. Two steeplejacks were on the sum- ■ mil of a, sixty feet chimney al Blantyre, when the fumes overcame Messertnan, weighing fourteen stone. His companion, Allan, held him suspended for ninety minutes until help arrived. STIMULATING AMERICAN TRADE WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. President Roosevelt, in a special message to Congress, urges the appointment'of six commercial agents to visit various countries and study their industries, and suggest new methods of stimulating Auierjran trade. FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, Jan. 21. The floods have suflici"ntly receded to allow the resumption of railway traffic. COMMONWEALTH PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, Jan. 21. Ihe list of subjects for consideration by the Premiers' Conference is very lengthy and includes the ap* pointment 0 f a High Commissioner, State and commercial representatives in London, and the taking over of State debits, Murray waters, and old age pensions. FEDERAL REVENUE RETURNS. MELBOURNE, Jan. 21. Sir George Turner (Fideral Premier) has issued a statement showing that the Federal revenue for the first half of the tjiscai year was £5,805,000, a decrease of £30,000 on the last corresponding half, and the expenditure £2,096,000, a decrease of £91,000. The surplus returned to the States was £3,780,000, an increase of £41,000.