GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8089, 20 April 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

INTERNATIONAL AMENITIES. Berlin, April 18. The villagers being unable to cope with A fire at Haringen, Alsace Lorraine, the fire brigade at Bale, Switzerland, hastened to help, hut the German Customs officials would not allow the brigade to paw unless duties on tho 4Btgiaes and appKanee* were pail. The humaitarian fire brigade therefore Ktnrnsd'to Bale. j ANGLO-KIJSSIAN RELATIONS. StriSweHSBCBG/ April 18. The" .|fovoe Veemya " strongly adyo«i4«s tn Anglo-lfussian entente. It' , dsoitfes that Great Britain, after Ger-' \ many, is Biissi&'s best customer, while 'folitiealljrtlio arrangement is the, ' UON. important- as Great Britain is! < able to guarantee security of 15ns- 1 : jw's Eastern possessions. .

' TQEPEDOBOATS IN COLLISION. •"*"*'' Malta, April 18. The torpedo-destroyer Ardent collided with anil s.iuk the torpedi! boat No. 81 »t Malta, . The crew were saved. GERMAN 1" IN SI AM. April 18. Pan-Germans jirc now agitating tor interference with the Anglo-Frcneh agreement with regard, to tly.'ir respective spheres of influence iu Siaui. VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. Loxdox, April 18. An extinct rolciao at Palma, in the' Canary Islands, is shaving signs of *ctivity. CHINESE IN SOUTH AFKICA. London, April 18. Mr Pless, late Chinese Controller at Noursedeep, Transyaal, totally denies Mr McCarthy's affidavit iu a Blue ' Book concerning the hanging of China- j men the wrists and toes upwards. ' INTERCOLONIAL TRADE. Sydney, April lU. Sir Bobert Stout, interviewed by the Sydney " Morning Herald " regretted the decline oi exportation from New Zealand to the Commonwealth. There was, he said, seed for sonic sort of reeiprocity.

!&# "Herald," commenting, fails to «ee the necessity f#r reciproeity, remarking that "wo nan produce everything that New Zealand can produce, and if wc are iscliued to the opinion tliat ire can produce it better, the opinion miy, at the worst, be esteemed an or/or of judgment." VITAL STATISTICS. Sydney, April in. The statistics for l'JOo show that the population increased by 31,500 on the preceding year, of which number 21,500 was by excess of births over dcathi. The birthrate is equivalent, to 215-72 per 1000. I» the metropolitan area the birthrate was the highest for 10 years. The death rate was 10'13 per 1000, which is five per cent, below the mean average of the last 10 years Deaths from phthisis were the lowest for live years, while the mortality from cancer is steadily increasing, the rati quinquennial average.