GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1916, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

JAPANESE SHIPPING ACTIVITY. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, August 10. Further evidence of Japanese shipping activity is contained in tlu» latest files. Besides an extension of the Australasian service?, the Toyokisen-Kaishu and Osaka-Shoseu-Kaisha companies have each ordered live 7500-ton steamers to inaugurate a n<JW service to Bra.".il or the East Coast of South America. STATE-OWNED SHIPPING. London, August 10. Fair Play, in a reference to New Zealand's creation of a State line, says ihnt tvervene admits the present shortage of tonnage, but that does not justify Governments going in wholesale for shipping, Even assuming that New Zealand's trade, either in emigrants or merchandise could support such a. fleet, by the time these 20.000 tonners are limit we shall probably have a long period of low and unprofitable freight. (This cable lias been submitted to the Government. who state that they have no knowledge of any proposal to establish a State line of steamers.) ELECTROLYTIC SPELTER WORKS. Melbourne, August 11. At a reception by the Metal Exchange Mr. Hughes said'tlit British Government had agreed, for ten years after the war, to take 100.000 tons of Australian concentrates. They would alsoi advance half-a-million to establish electrolytic spelter works. Arrangements had been made whereby France, Britain, and Belgium should absorb all the concentrates produced. Britain intends to make impossible the recurrence of our industrial vassalage to Germany. DANISH WEST INDIES. Copenhagen, August 10. The agitation against the sale of the Danish West Indies is increasing, especially among the Conservative and toft parties, and then* an l evidence of dissatisfaction in Radical journals. The National Tridende prints many requests to tiie King to refuse to sign the ratification if this is passed by the Rigsdag.