GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1916, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

FEDERAL TRADE WITH JAPAX. - 1 , Austr&lian-N.Z. Cable Association; Sydney, September 21. iAustralian exports to Japan for the half-year ended June are valued at £2,338,002, an increase of £71;),383. Japanese exports to Australia amounted to £ 1,'20G,985, a_n increase of £505,327 as compared with the previous June halfyear. THE POOLED WHEAT. Sydney, September 21. From to-day the Federal Government' pays a further advance of sixpence per 'bushel on pooled wheat. 'VICTORIAN RAILWAYS DEFICIT. -Melbourne, September 21. The Victorian railways expenditure for the year Ifl 1-5-1918 exceeded, the revenue by £337,953. .. BRITISH BY-ELECTION.-London, September 21. The Mansfield election resulted: —-Sir Charles Seely (Coalition) 7597, Mr. Tumhull (Independent) 4>4s<]. AMUSEMENT TAX. Hobart, September 21. Tn the Assembly the financial statement showed the year's surplus on ordinary revenue to be £68,111, reducing the deficit to £08,087. The proposed new taxation is a tax on amusements. There is a penny on every sixpence paid for admission, kii increase of the tax on Tattefsall's to 10 per cent, of the prizes and a penny for each ticket, and 4i per cent, of the totalisator receipts. The new taxes are expected to realise £79,800. CANCERINE BARRED. Sydney Sept. 21. A proclamation prohibits the importa- [ tion of the medical preparation called Canccrine, manufactured by the Natural Cancer Cure Company, Twickenham, England. . LABOR AND CONSCRIPTION. Sydney September 22. The Labor Council resolved to call a stop-work meeting of all workers to discuss conscription. "Early closing. Sydney, September 22. In the Assembly, Mr. Hoi nun said that before 11 o'clock hotel closing was reverted to Parliament or the people would be given an opportunity of expressing an opinion. BUTTER EXPORT. Melbourne, September 22. The embargo on the export of butter 'as been removed. SERIOUS STRIKE RIOTS New York, Sept. 21. There is serious rioting among the strikers, who are forming flying bands and stoning cars for the purpose o; frightening passengers, and attacking motormen. The gangs are using Central Park as it rendezvous for ambushes, contiguous to the Eighth Avenue &n.l Fifty-ninth Street lines. There are 0700 police now on strike duty and a hundred motor-cars and a hundred motor-cycles carrying detectives are constantly patrolling the disturbed districts. There have been a number of collisions between police and strikers, and Captain Dempsey, commanding the Eighth Avenue police, had his skull cracked by a brick. The public prosecutor threatens to prosecute the "strikers for throwing missiles under a law carrying from five to twenty years' penalties.

Both sides now believe the strike has reached the climax and serious outrages are feared. It is not believed that a general sympathetic strike will be called.