GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 82, 3 May 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

KINO kI»VAKI). Received May 2, 4.:tp p.m. London, May 2. King Edward has arrived at Naples. CANADA'S DKI'KNCES. London, April 30. Lord Kitchener visits Canada and examines its defensive forces for the War Office, BOUNTIES ACT. , Melbourne, May !, During the first twelve months' that tlie Federal Bounties Act lias been in operation frii.'to has been claimed and £2214 paid in bounties. TIIE 11UOKKX HILL JUNKS. Sydney, Mav 1. The management of Block 10 i'li-iing Company lias decided to reopen on a full production basis. The strikes have ended at the Clifton collieries and work has resumed. COLONIAL SUGAR COMPANY. , Sydney, May 1, ■ lhe Colonial Sugar Company** profits for six months are .1:1112,1132, making the total amount available for distribution •illoo,ooo. A dividend of 10 per, <-ent. has been declared, and C5ll,.)00 carried forward. The chairman stated that tlie production of sugar in Australia this t Y<Hir fell short, of the consumption, am'f sonic importation had boon necessary. A proposal to erert smother mi|t at Fiji had fallen through for the present. SENTENCED TO DKATII, Maryborough, May 1. Arthur Ross was sentenced to 'death for the murder of ,1. Muir, of the Gayndah branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney.