GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 123, 2 September 1910, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

WAXGAXUI CUSTOMS. | By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. ' The Customs duties collected at the . port of Wanganui show an increase of £ll2B, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, being £6653 4s 3d, as against £5524 8s 3d. NEW CARGO STEAMER. Dunedin, Last Night. The Union Steamship Company has' closed the contract for the building ot a new cargo steamer of 3000 tons dead weight capacity. The builders are j Messrs. Ramage and Ferguson, of Leith,| who built the company's tug Terawhiti.' The new steamer will be out here in seven months' time. Her cargo-handling appliances will be of the latest, and the internal arrangements will probably be J an advance on anything of that kind i now in the cargo-carriers of these waters. Her speed will be eleven knots an hour, and her size about the same as that of the Rakanoa. She will be employed in the general cargo trad«. A TIMARU JONAH. Timaru, Last Night. A local weather student forecasts rain probable on the 3rd inst. (the date of the Timavu-Christchurcn. road race). A strong warm nor'-wester has cleared much of the snow on the lower ranges to-day.