GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 275, 12 April 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LLOYDS' REGISTER. Py Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 10. Lloyds' register for the quarter ended March 31 shows that 563 vessels of 2,003,694 tons burthen were under construction. This is a record. AN AMERICAN HOAX. Cairo, April 10. The Egyptian Gazette, which was the first to announce Professor Reisncr's remarkable discoveries in a temple within the Sphinx's head, now asserts that the whole story was fabricated by American journalists. THE ST. GOTIIARD CONVENTION. Berne, April 10. The States Council ratified the St. Gothard Convention. TROUBLE IN BURMA. Calcutta, April 10. Chinese troops attacked ;>. surveying party on the Burma Frontier, but were repulsed. The British had a few casualties. I A NEW FIST-TINT! GROUND. ' Melbourne. April 11. Mr. Bannevijj, the Inspector of Fishtries, reports that the la*t cruise of the trawler Endeavour in the Australian Bight, disclosed the fact that two thousand square miles of hitherto unsuspected fishing grounds existed, where she had obtained excellent results. NEW SOUTH WALES'S POPULATION. Sydney. April 11. The population of New South Wales is now 1.778,976. an increase for the year of 80.226. There is r.lso a record birth-rate of 20.90 per thousand, the highest since 1895. THE NORTH LYELL MINE. - Hobart, April 11. The thousand feet level at the North Lyell mine lias been cleared of water, and the three bodies there will be recovered to-day. Only one bodv will then remain, and this is supposed to be in the . 1100: feet level. v '