GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 56, 31 March 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. Received 31, 1.25 a.m. London. March 30. The New. Zealand Shipping Co. has declared a dividend of 0 per cent.

THE GERMAN ME.XACJi. London, March 20. The Spectator discusses the possibility of the German Xavy being aimed at challenging the Monroe Doctrine m relation to German interests in Smith America, hence the building of battleships for Brazil, Ol'El'A HOUSE DYXAMITKU New York, .\larcli ill. Labour troubles are the suspected cause of the dynamiting destruction of an opera house which was in course of construction.

ENGAGEMENT WITH AMERICAN INDIANS.

New York, March 29. Advices from Oklahoma state that the I'nited States troops had a sharp encounter with Creek Indians at Henrietta. Twenty of the latter were killed.

Sill SYDENHAM CLARKE. Calcutta, March 29.

.Sir Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay, who recently lost his wife and daughter by death, lias sailed on a health cruise to Aden.

CLAIM i'OU DAMAGES. London, March 2!).

Ex-Lieut. Woods is bringing action agamst (he Army Council claiming •C77,0U0 on a charge of unlawfully removing biiu from the Grenadier Guards.

NEW LANDED COMPANY. London. March 29. The iiovril Australian Estates, Ltd., acquires the Victorian Downs. Carlton Hill, Northcote Stations, and lUO.Olin cattle at a price of C2olJ,nill).

A CON'T li A DICTION*. London. .March 29. Mr J. B. Whiting, acting Agenl.Cen oral for South Australia, in a Idler lo The Times, contradicts a rumour, upon the authority of his Governiueiil. that another South Australian loan is a I I to be placed upon the London market.

THE lIIIOKIC.V HILL TItOUSUO. Sydney, March 29. Over a thousand miners have left Itroken Hill since the trouble commenced.

ovmi SKIZURKS. Sydney, llaiv-h 20. 'Jin* Customs officials continue their active anti-opium crusade. Frequent seizures arc matin from steamers from Chum. Ninety-nme tins were .secured from the steamer Aldenham.