GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 292, 4 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

I'. AND 0. STEAMER COMPANY. London, December 2. The annual report of the I'. Una 0. Steam Navigation Company shows a profit of £207,225. Of this amount £58,420 id to be carried forward. GRAVING DOCK FOR THE CLYDE. London, December 2. A graving dock is being built at the Clyde large enough to accommodate the largest battleships.

ROOSEVELT'S LAST APPOINTMENTS. Now York, December 2. Before retiring from the Presidency Mr. Roosevelt made 15,500 fourth-class sub-postmasters permanent oilioials, thus removing them from political influence.

TRAM CAR STUCK UP. New York, December 2. Four armed men and three women boarded a tramcar in the heart of New York at 3 o'clock in the morning. They murderously assaulted the conductor and then robbed sixty-five passengers of ther jewellery and money. They escap-1 ed unhindered. i

INDIANS IN THE TRANSVAAL. Pretoria, December 2. Eight thousand out of ten thousand Indians iu the Transvaal have been registered. A thousand applications for registration have been rejected. Thci remaining two thousand will be prosecuted. A SHIPPING AGREEMENT. London, December 2. It is reported that the British-India and Federal-Houlder-Shiro lines of steamships have arrived at an agreement iir connection with the new direct mail service between Britain and Queensland via Torres Strait.