GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 October 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Loudon, October [. | It is exacted that the Kin;,' .udi Queen of Spain will visit \\ indsor during! thy Kaiser's visit. I The quarterly revenue wa--771, 01 v.liiili KI.'.CAW) vm cuntribute.l by customs, by excise ;i ia £2.07.1.000 by stamp duty. An official report states that 40,0'1U Americans have tx>en touring on the Continent in SOOO motors during the past season. They have been spending an arerage of r£50,000 daily. St. Petersburg. October 1. The newspaper Russ now states that (wo battleships of 2:~>,000 tons each are to be completed within two years ai the Baltic Works. Their armaments includ'j ten 12-inch and six S-in smns. They will hare crews of over 1000 men each. New York, October 1. The United States Government, with the intention of preventing the inflation of American contract-ir~' prices, will shortly invite tenders from Cardiff for £200.000 worth of coal for the fleet which is to proceed on a, cruise in tn.- ( Pacific. ' ,~xr | Paris, October 1. All the balloons in the (irand Prix J race have landed safely.

Melbourne, October 2. The number of State Savings Bank depositors during xe> jiast year increased by 2(.")(](). :in] the amount; to the credit of depositors increased bv £1 ft*),ooo. Federal customs revenue for the first quarter of the financial year was £1t,023,000—an increase of .tiss.ono over the corresponding quarter of last year. The increase is largely attributed to the new tariff, which has been in operation for s<-ven weeks. The railway revenue for Victoria for the past year was C4.ol2.ooo—tile largest ever earned. The percentage of working expenses to revenue is the lowest since 1878. In connection with the recently re ported murders in the Island of ifa'nita, the Federal authorities are adviVrt thatprobablv there are not more crim's than prior to the repatriation of the Kanakas. \ T ow. however, when th»re are more missionaries, murders are r>ported which before were never heard

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