GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8991, 28 November 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Received November 27, 9.16 p.m. BOMBAY, November 27. Good rains have fallen in southern India. Received November 27, 9.2 a.m. LONDON, November 26. A record number of steerage passengers recently arrived from* New York and Canada. LONDON, November 26. A fire at Gamage's shop in Holborn caused a loss of £30,000. LONDON, November 26. The Postmaster-G6neral, the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, in declining to reduce the postage on newspapers and periodicals from Great Britain to Newfoundland, explains that the Canadian rate of a penny a pound was established because British publications would otherwise have been excluded owing to American competi- | tion. No similar circumstances 1 existed in the case of Newfoundland. PARIS, November 26. Baron Latuillerie paid £12,000 duty on pictures which he purchased at auction in New York for. only £2,000, owing to the financial crisis there.- Some pictures by eminent painters realised £1 apiece. BERLIN, November 26. The police discovered in a house in Berlin belonging to a Social democratic municipal councillor a large depot of the Russian Social Democratic Union. It was full ,of revolutionary literature, pistols and dumdum bullets. BOMBAY, November 26. The Bengal-Nagpur railway men have resumed work.

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