GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1917, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE COMING OF THE TOTALTSATOP Ausiralian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, December "2P. Tlie Jockey C'inb lias approved of (lie five totaiisator companies registered in Sydney being asked to submit a proposal in connection with the erection of machines at Randwick. LOSS OX THE STRIKE. Sydney, Deeeml/'i' "20 It is estimated that the miners lost £240,000 in wages during tie iate coal strike. VICTORIAN OVERSEA TRADE. .Melbourne, December "2!). The Victorian overesa I.r,iide for lOlfi i.i expected to show a,' decrease of £5,0(10,000 in imports and an increase of £ +,800,000 i" export;/ as compared with 1915. I RETURNED UNMTOSKD.

London, December 20. Mr. .1. D. Kiley (Liberal I was returned nnopnp«ert for Whitifi'hapol. <ucce-d----ing Sir S. M. Samuel, '!vho resigned for business rea-ons. : DECREASE IN WORLD'S YIELD OF WHEAT. I Home. Dec. .'lO. The Institute of Agriculture states that (he yield of /wheat in sixteen rounlrics in the iWtlie'i; hemisphere and two in tiie s/oiithern .Hemisphere is 74.7 per cent. , that of 1015, and 01.2 of tlie averageof 1010-1-1 The Argentine yield is o'jx'ly 52 per cent, of that of five years" average. SIX PERSONS DROWNED. ■ Perth, December 30. A girl named Kathleen Gorman got beyond her difpth, and owing to a lifeline parting sl'ie and live would-be rescuers— William 'DjuiiHi'v, Edward Daymon, George Hopkins, John Smith and Peter Daly—were drowned. .Melbourne, December 31. The Slate revenue for the half-year was £B,SSS,W, « n increase of £240,01,5 compared \yith the previous corresponding half-year. A coiif: fence of the colliery proprietors' and pit mechanics' representatives resulted tlie proprietors granting increases of ten and twenty per cent, in their wagc>s, conceding eight instead of eight and ii-half'hours to some men, and six hours ion Saturday, with preference to unionists, to operate from January 1 if the unions accept the concessions. Enlistments throughout the Commonwealth continue at a low level, Melbourne, December 31. Of 53,703,000 bags of wheat pooled last season, 15,505,000 have already been shipped, while local sales amounted to 11,527,0 M. |