GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 148, 13 June 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITAIN'S OVERSEA TRADE. London, June 11. The Westminster Gazette calls ntte '■ , tion to the significance of the Board o' , Trade returns of oversea trade from 11)00 to 11)07. The returns take 1900 as a standard year. They give th.i following percentage of increase for 100/ on the basis of 1900 prices:—lmports, 15 per cent, in volume and 23 in value; ' exports, 43 in volume and 40 in value; re-exports, 25 in volume and 44 in value, CHINESE ON THE RAND. Pretoria, June 11. There arc still 21,007 Chinese on the Rand. CANADA'S TERCENTENARY. Pretoria, June It.. fir George Farrar will accompany th* Premier, Mr. Louis Botha, on his visit to Canada to take part in the Quebie tercentenary celebrations. PTOMAINE POISONING AT A BANQUET. Paris, June 11, Many of the guests at tile Automobile Club s banquet at Paris suffered ptomaine poisoning. One. has died, and several, including the Marquis de Dion. | are seriously ill. ' ' A CAUCASIAN 'OUTRAGE . „.. ' . v Tiflis, June 11. «»?. i CX '^ Qh , 0f Gcor « ia ,va " i* B "' B '- »ated on the doorstep of the Synod building at Tiflis. The assassin eTa;. ft , tlle chief of "»e poliftfll loi ce, who was entrusted with the case, was murderously assaulted. An at•eiatL'V^M 0 from bim the d°™menU a & ttK , Caß ° Mkd ' hut the «* sailant escaped.