GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 312, 10 January 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN INDIAN LOAN. Received Jan. 9, 10.35 p.m. Bombay, January 9. An Indian loan of £5,000,000 at 3>/ a per cent., with a minimum of 99, is being i33Uei SEVERE WEATHER IN EUROPE. Berlin, January 8. The streets of Berlin are a sea of ice. Hundreds of pedestrians have been injured, many seriously, by falling on % frozen surface. London, January 8. A rapid thaw . occurred in London. Tempests are raging on the British coast*. | SOUTH AFRICAN MINING. Capetown, January 8. The working coßts of the sixty-three mines whose output represents 69 per cent, of the eittire tonnage from the Rand, was 20s per ton for last November. The average in previous years has been 22s 6d per ton. NAVAL IMPROVEMENTS.

London, January 8. The improvements to the battleship Collingwood have been begun. Tha plans include the raising of the turret amidships to make an all-round fire possible. BRITISH OVERSEA TRADE. London, January 8. (The Board of Trade returns show that laßt year's import and export trade totalled in value £1,164,081,000. Imports increased by £38,015,670 over those of 1806. Exports increased by £50,029,258, and re-exports by £6,869.661.

PARLIAMENTARY LABOR PARTY. [ London, January 8. Owing to pressure of other dutie«, Mr J. D. Shackteton declines re-election to the chairmanship of the Parliamentary Labor Party. Mr Shackleton, addressing his constituents, advocated the raising of £17,500,000 yearly from all those whose incomes are over £SOOO yearly, toward the fund for old-age pensions. Pensions of 5s weekly should be given. He declared that those at the top could stand a little bit off without running short. THE CONGO TRIBES.

Brussels, January 8. There is a growing feeling in Belgium [ against annexing the Congo, Many of the Congo tribes are in open revolt. There is intermittent heavy fighting in many districts. " JACK THE" RTPPER " AGAHT. Berlin, January 8. five "Jack the Ripper" crimes hare been perpetrated in the streets here. Four of the outrages were on children.