GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8140, 23 June 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIA* TENUIS TEAX| Svdnet, Juie 22. lbs Tennis Association lias discussed New Zealand's invitation t< ■end a team across It was agreed that New South Wales owed New Zea land a visit, but the matter of funds ii an apparently insurmountable difficulty It was decided to ask the New Zealand Association to state the latest date on which a decision may be given, in the hope that the trip may bo arranged.

AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE Mbmoersb, June 22.

After a Cabinet meeting, Mr Deakin. Federal Premier, stated that the En? glish mail contract was on the verge o! being signed. It is understood f roc other sources that it is practically completed, and Only the final cable messages are being awaited from Lon don. The names of the companies in the combination which, it is reported has received, or will, receive the con tract have not been stated. It v understood that they have a capital ol between three and four million sterling. JAPANESE CREW MURDERED Toeio, June 21. Russians at Tigil, in JLamschatki have murdered ten of the crow of t Japanese schooner, and retained eiglil survivors as slaves, whom they maltreated and almost starved.

A DANGEROUS ANARCHIST. Roue, June 21. Scaramelli, a notorious anarchist, has been arrested at Pisa w'nle journeying to Ancona, where the King and Queen of Italy are to open a hospital on Sunday.

„*< AUSTRALIAN RECIPROCITY. Hobaht, June 22. *■ At the annual meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce the report stated ' r - that reciprocity with New Zealand wonld be prejudicial to ail the best interests of Tasmania, as it would include hops and potatoes and mosth articles from which the State was deriving a cortain amount of benefit. It would be advantageous to New Zealand if reciprocity were established.

___ TRADE PROSPECTS. Mr Suttor, the New South Wales commercial agent in the East, has ar riyed from China. He is impressed with the growing commercial activitj of the East, and the prospects of in creasing trade with Australia, but says that competition is keener than ever.

It will be. the Australian exporters own fault if by shutting their eyes t< the peculiarities of Eastern peoples. and by failing to cater for their requrements, tneir trade gradually dis appears from the commercial horizor of the Orient. It was a mistaken idc:< to think anything would do for tlit East.