GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 March 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

PALMYRA ISLAND. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 1. A correspondent of the Morning Post suggests that Hawaii annexed Palmyra Island in 1862, invallidating Britain's annexation in 1889. AN IMPERIAL TRADE COMMISSION. Melbourne, March 1. The Federal Government has appointed Mr. Donald Campbell, a South Australian ex-Labor member, Australian representative on the Imperial Commission to inquire into the natural resources and improvement in trade within the Empire, in accordance with a resolution adopted at the Imperial Conference. [This is the commission on which it is possible Sir Joseph Ward may take a seat.] BANK* OF AUSTRALASIA. London, March 1. The report of the Bank of Australasia Btates that it is proposed to grant a bonus of 10 per cent, to the staff, to pay. a dividend of 14 per cent, and a bomis of 3 per cent., to add £50,000 to the reserve ami £20,000 to the premises account; £10,073 is to be carried forward, SEDGWICK BOYS. London, March 1. At a meeting of two thousand lads at Walworth, held with the object of encouraging juvenile emigration, > Mr. Sedgwick detailed the success of the New Zealand experiment. FIGHT WITH MOTOR FIENDS. Paris, March 1. Some motorists from Place du Havre broke into a lawyer's bouse at Pontoise. The owner fired at them, and the motorists replied with revolvers, wounding the lawyer. The car was afterwards discovered in flames at St. Ouen, hear St. Malo. STEAMERS COLLIDE. London, March 1. The Dover steamer Le Nord, with three hundred passengers aboard, was badly damaged through collision off Dover. The passengers were safely landed. THE GENTLE SUFFRAGETTE. London, MaTch L Suffragettes demonstrated in Fleet street and the Strand. Many shop windows were smashed and several arrests made. OIL FOR THE NAVY. ' London, March 1. Mr. Churchill is maturing a plan to experiment with the Diesel oil engine in a cruiser.