GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 12 February 1915, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

GOOD IN INDIA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 8. The Times' Delhi correspondent re ports good rains in the northern, een tral and western districts. The Pun jab and United Provinces show a mud larger area under crop, and good gcr munition is universal.

APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL. London, February 8. The Privy Council, in the case 'he Union Steamship Company versus the Wellington Harbor Board, reserved it? judgment. Respondent was not called.

A VALUABLE PORCELAIN London, February 10. Duneens purchased Piorpont Morgan'? Chinese porcelain collection for £BOO,OOO. NELSON BROS.' PROFITS. London, February 10. Nelson Brothers' profit for the year was .-673,758. They pay a divident of .£4 per cent, and a bonus of £2 per cent, '('lie investments have been written down ■hy £15,000, and £2.070 is carried forward.

\EW SOUTH WALES LOAN. • By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. 'Sydney, February 11. Mr. Dolman has intimated tliat ten millions are involved in the Norton Griffith's scheme. A WESTRALIAN murder. Perth, February 11. Eatt Kojunup, who murdered his wife, says he drank a quantity of rum and nil;,)veiled with his wife. '.When he ean.o to his senses he found he had hilled her.

r.iIJL.'AMEXTARY SALARIES. Perth, February 11, Tn the Assembly, Mr. Connolly, Liberal member for Perth, brought forward a motion rcdacing Parliamentary allow, ances to i i,e level of four years ago and reducing the pay of the Speaker, President of the Legislative Council, chairman of committees, and members by t'JOfi, r.n.! depriving Ministers of their members' pay. The Premier angrily opposed the motion, declaring that he earned his salary.