GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 36, 2 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

I AUSTRALIAN REVENUF

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, June 30. The Slate revenue iur Wie year w;is :ns,2t)S,f>!H, iiu increase of £2,241,21)3. Melbourne, July 1. Tlie revenue totalled £10,402,573, an iiiei'oasc of £219,41)3, constituting a record.

WOMEN EMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRALIA,

London, June 30. Sir George Reid piv-.idud at the meeting of tile Prills* \,'-nuns Emigration Association. He pu.d a tribute to Hie association's work in encouraging wo intend emigration to Australia.

COAL MINES lOU iH'DDART PARKER AND CO.

Sydney, July 1. Huddart, Parser and" Co." have pur-' chased the Eel/burn colliery nit South Mainland. The new company, it is understood, will be called Hebburn, Limited. The company lias als* ae<|uired the Aberdare railway, twelve mibis in length, and with six stations, and is taking six other coilieries. GREAT TIDAL WAVE. Sydney, July 1. News lias been received thai a" tidal wave, rising forty-two feet, swept over Nassau Islaid doing con-iderabve damage. JeJlm Petersen anil his wife lost everything and Vuffered privations due to lack of food and water for five months, until .they were rescued by Hie steamer Dawn and sonveyed to Apia.

HEAT WAVE IN ENGLAND. Loiiitai, June 30. A heat wave is oppressing England. A tempera lure of 84 degrees in the f-jhade has been registered in London.

BY-ELECTION IN ENGLAND. London, June 30. Mr Prothero has been elected unonposed for the. vacancy for Oxford University, caused by Sir W. Anson's death. '■FIRED INTO THE AIR." New Y'ork, June 30. Shot wounded six persons sealed en fllir ob-vrvation platform of an eastward bound tiurlington train at Kansas City. According to the man who admitted lie fired the sliot it was in honor of flic women on the platform. He had no intention of injuring anyone and fired into the air.