GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8137, 20 June 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A FRAUDULENT COMPANY. Ottawa, June 18.

" 'lhe Ontario Silver Plating Company, of Niagara Falls, has been fined six hundred dollars at the Welland County sessions for fraudulently stamping its cutlery with the word " Sheffield."

JAPAN'S FINANCES. London, June 18.

The " Daily Telegraph's" Tokio correspondent reports that the next Japanese budget will show a deficit of eight million sterling. "Bussia has not yet paid compensation in connection with the late war.

NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydnby, June 19. Speaking at ArncliCEc, Mr Carrutliers, tlie State Premier, announced that the Lands Department would be placed under the control of Commissioners. He claimed that the Government closer settlement policy had placed fifteen thousand people. on the land, and predicted that the year would end with a million pounds surplus, after paying £450,000 off the sinking fund.

THE RABBIT EXPEBIMENTS. I Sydney, June 19. I The Federal Government has given the necessary permission for the breaking of tho seals cf the jars containing Dr Danysz's microbes for the extermination of rabbits. BOMB THROWING IN VICTORIA. Ajelboobnb. June 19. A bomb was thrown in the yard of a man named Baker at who had just entered the house from the yard. The explosion made a large hole in the ground, and smashed a window. Baker, his son, and a girl had a narrow escape. BRITISH TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, June 19. Mr Jeffray, the travelling Commissioner of tho British Board of Trade, in an address to the Chamber of Commerce, stated that he obtained complete schedul#s showing tho course of imports, both to the Commonwealth and New Zealand for 25 yeats, and had accumulated, a great deal of infor- j mation. Whep seeking to trice the cause of the decline of British imports | to Australia,' : he had always been met with the pnswer that the British manunot seem inclined to make what'"ijliaF customers wanted, while GermansJancL others were' ready to make any&isg required.