GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 3 February 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A FATAL CQLLIS.„.>, r . By Cable—Pyesa Association—Copyright. Berlin, February 1. A ferry boat collided with a cargo boat at Hamburg during a blizzard, and eight persons were drowned. BRITISH TRADE COMMISSIONER. London, February 1. At Mr. McGowen's instance the Board of Trade is establishing in April a branch of the Trade Commissioner's Office at Sydney. THE BOTTOMLEY CASE. London, February 1. Mr. Justice Eady has declared Horatio Bottomley guilty of malfeasance in a breach of trust in transferring shares as fully paid on which nothing had been paid: 115,242 out of 147,092 of these shares had been sold to his benefit. BRITISH LABOR EXCHANGES. London, February 1. During 1911, employers notified 1261 labor exchanges of 757,109 vacancies, and the exchanges filled 570,000, in addition to finding 125,300 men for odd jobs. FROZEN MEAT IN SWITZERLAND. London, February 1. Sir George Reid had a satisfactory interview with the Minister of Agriculture at Berne, in connection with the admission of meat. Already increasing supplies of Australian meat are reaching Switzerland. A BURGLAR IDENTIFIED. Paris, February 1. The man who called himself Wied, who was arrested after getting into an Orleans to Paris train, has been identified as Jos. Renard, an associate of those alleged to have been concerned in the outrage at Montmarte last month, when a bank messenger was shot and robbed, FANNING ISLAND. London, February 1. Nothing is known officially of the Honolulu report that Britain is fortifying Fanning Island as a coaling station.