GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81915, 9 January 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

0 A PROSPEROUS COMPANY. Received 9th, 10.00 p.m. London, January 8. Robert Campbell and Sons' balancesheet discloses a profit of £50240. A dividend of 7 1 /. per cent has been declared, £10,00(1 carried to reserve, and £22,240 carried forward. JAPANjS FOREIGN TRADE} London, January 7. Japan's foreign trade in 1000 amounted to £84,000,000. The exports exceeded the imports. A REPORT DENIED. London, January 7. The report of the cession of Tahiti is officially denied. [lt was reported that France bad ceded Tahiti to Great Bsitain in return for territory in Burma or furthest India.] FRISCO LOSSES' LIABILITY. New York, January 7. The Superior Court of California upheld the Williamsburg City Insurance Company's contention that it was not liable for losses attributable to the earthquake. DUCHESS OF CUMBERLAND ILL. London, January 7. The Duchess of Cumberland was taken suddenly ill at (Imundcn, near Vienna. She has undergone a successful operation. ADVANCEMENT OF SCIKNCE. - Adelaide, January 7. The conference of the Australian Association for the Advancement- ol Science has opened. Dr. HowiU lias been elected president. THE OKRMAN RAILWAY DISASTER. Berlin, January 7. Eighteen navvies, at Ringer are still buried. It is considered that there is no chance of their rescue. [A series of collapses occurred while several hundred men wcr working in a railway cutting, and many- were buried.]

A NAVAL, IXYEXTIOX. ] Lomlou, January 7. , An invention by Mr A. Austin, of . Victoria, which it is understood en- j ables guns to lie sighted in the roughest of weather, has been submitted to the War Oilice. : A DISASTROUS FIRM. : \ Bangkok, January 7. A lire in the Chinese quarter of [ Bangkok, the capital of Sunn, did damage to the extent of t Csß:i,liaj. ATTEMPTED ROUBKRY OX AIAIL STEAMER.

Sydney, January S. It has transpired that an attempt was made on Saturday night to rob the. purser's safe on the Sierra containing a thousand- sovereigns, but nothing was obtained. YVAUNiXi; TO AUTISAXS. Adelaide, January S. Letters received from artisans who rushed from Australia, to San Franeisco in search of work reveals a dc plorable condition of tlie labour market. They warn others against coining.

AX ATTE.MI'TKD OI'TISACI". - Sydney, .human- 8. A white -lead tin filled villi stones, powder, mill dynamite, willi- u fuse detonaloratlaclied. was found unilcra private residence ill .Mosman J'av. No attempt had been made to explode it. The police view the matter seriously.