GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 219, 4 February 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COCKATOO ISLAND DOCKYARD. By Cable —Press Association—Copyr.ghf. Received 3, 9.35 p.m. 'Melbourne, February 3. The, Commonwealth will pay New South Wales £87,300 for the dockyard at Cockatoo lb]and. THE .U'STRO-AMKRICAN LINE. Received 4, 1.5 a.m. London. February 3. The Aiistro-Anicrican ■Steamship Company is being iiiiamvd ilfrinly by the Deutsche Bank, it announces monthly sailings, starling in March, from Trieste mill St. Johns in the winter, and Montreal in the .summer.

A FRUSTRATED ELOPEMENT. Received 3, 11.35 p.m. London, February 3. A man boarded the Kinui at Plymouth and discovered his wife and two children in the second-class with her lover. She reluctantly abandoned the elopement, being told that she would be deported when she reached Australia. AN ENORMOUS FINE. Received 3, 11.35 p.m. Paris. February 3. A wholesale spirit merchant has been fined £OO,OOO for oll'enccs against the excise law. THE OPIUM TRAFFIC. Received 3, 11.35 p.m. Pekin, February 3. Opium-growing lias been stamped out except in certain areas in Fukien, Sonan, Shensi, Kansu and Kangchow. Opium )iiiokers were disfranchised at the recent elections. All the political parlies ire supporting the Government.