GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 24 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

WELLING'!, L\ lIAiIUGR BOAUD. By Telcgrapn.'-- Press Association. Wel.inglon, July 22. The Harbor Jioajd to-night discussed tlii! wiiti'i-fi-iii". uibor question, and de.cided to co-operate with the association recently formed to control labor on the wharves. Jt v.as also decided to obtain ■an estimate of the cost of altering the wool wharf to make it available for use by the lyttelton ferry steamers, owing to its proximity to the site of the proposed new railway station. CHEAPER CABLES. Wellington, July 22. The popularity of the cheap week-end system of cable telegrams is fully evidenced in the adoption of the system by a number of countries since it was first inaugurated between this Dominion and Great Britain. Burma, Canada, Ccvon, India, and the.Union of South Africa already enjoy the cheap method. The Hon. ]!. Hcaton Rhodes* Post-master-General, has just sanctioned a ftirtlicr extension of the system from the Ist proximo to Aden, Ascension, Coeos, Labiun, Malacca, Mauritius, Penang. I'erim, Portugal, Rodriguez, St. Helena. Seychelles .Singapore, and Zanzibar. The rate for the week-end cable service is one-quarter of the ordinary charge. 4with ti minimum of twenty words. WAIHI GRAND JUNCTION MINE. Auckland, July 22. During the past month, the' Waihi Grand Junction Company treated 9320 tons of ore for a yield 'of £19,072, an increase of £lO-12'over the yield for the corresponding period of last year.