GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 392, 18 May 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

VICTORIAN BUTTER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received May 18, 12.30 a.m. Victoria, May 17. The butter exports for ten and a half months of this year total 16,200 tois, compared with 9402 tons for the wliole of last year. The cow census shows that there are now 625,063, as compared with 609,166 the previous year. BOXHILL ROBBER. Received May 1)8, 12.30 a.m. Melbourne, May 17. The police efforts to capture the .Boxhill bank robber have so far been unavailing. CRICKETER'S SUICIDE. Received May 18, 12-30 a.m. London, May 18. Arthur Woodcock, the Leicestershire cricketer, committed suicide by taking poison. AMERICANi TRADE. Received May 18, 12.30 a.m. New York, May 17. Eight months' statistics since freetrade was established show that American imports from the Phillipines have increased from £1,322,000 to £2,441,000; and exports from £1,407,000 to £2,308,000. NITRATE IN CHILI. Received May 17, 111 p.m. Valparaiso, <May 17The nitrate field owners of Chili met at Valparaiso to renew the nitrate trust, and urged the Government to force all owners to adhere thereto. A TRAWLER SENT TO THE BOTTOM. London, May 16. The steam cutter Cleopatra sank the trawler Windsor Castle in the North Sea, seven" of the tetter's crew being drowned. A MASSACRE AVENGED. Paris, May 16. A French column has ave?iged the massacre at Abeshr, in the Wadai district, North East Africa, where 110 native soldiers, a European captain, two lieutenants and two sergeants were ambushed and killed by the Somali Mullah, only eight escaping. BLACKMAILING CARUSO. New York, March 16. Nisiani, a member of the Black Hand gang, has been sentenced to indeterminate imprisonment for from 3% to 7Vs years for blackmailing Signor Caruso, the singer. ACTION FOR DAMAGES. London, May 16. Reuters correspondent at St. Petersburg savs the Official Commercial and Industrial Gazette expresses the hope that the famed British justice wi'l be accorded Varawa in his action for false imprisonment, etc., in connection with' his case for damages against the Howard, Smith and Co. S.S. Company, of Australasia. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Buenos Avres. May 16. A serious outbreak of foot and mouth disease has occurred among cattle in the Corrientes .province of the Argentine.