GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 30 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

V / SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Xiglit. The annual report of the South British Insurance Co. states the net revenue for the year was £388,2(16 14b Bd, the surplus in revenue account £87,174 :is !kl, credit to profit and loss account £ 11-2,071 :is 1(M, and transferred to reserve fund £40,000. The directors recommend a. dividend of Is 3d per shara for the half year, absorbing 117,500, ami a bonus to stall' .€6500, leaving £24,508 fls Id to curry to th« new account. A CASVAL SORT OF PIUSOXER. Rotorua, Last, Night. A prisoner at \Vaiot:ipu camp escaped at 5 o'clock yesterday and remained undiscovered till tea-time to-night, when he turned up for a meal. INCREASE IN FROZEX MiEAT CHARGES. Masterton, La-l Xiglit, The Wairarapa Age has buen informed by the managing director of the Wellington Fanners' Meat Compiinv that advice has just been received from the Port of London Authority and several London wharf market and storage firms that in eonse<|iience of the recent advance in wages, nn increase »f 7Va l ,er cent, is being made on all charges incurred Oil frozen meat and other produce, as from August 14. This will mean a loss of many thousands to the producers of the Dominion.