BRITISH TRADE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9024, 10 January 1908, Page 5

BRITISH TRADE.

ALL-ROUND INCREASES. ' Received January 9, 7.38 a.m. LONDON, January 8. The Board of Trade returns show that last year's trade totalled £1,164,081,000. The imports increased by £38,015,675 over tho«e of 1906, the exports increased by £50,629,258, and the re-exports by £6,869,661. "JACK THE RIPPER" CRIMES. VICTIMS INCLUDE CHILDREN. Received January 9, 8.30 a.m. BERLIN, January 8. Five "Jack the Ripper" crimes have been perpetrated in the streets here, the victims including four children. TEMPESTS ON BRITISH COASTS. BERLIN STREETS A SEA OF ICE.

Received January 9, 8.15 a.m. LONDON, January 9. A rapid thaw has occurred in London. Tempests are raging on the British coasts. Berlin streets are a soa of ice. A hundred pedestrians were injured by falls, many seriously. (A cable message from London, on January; 6th, stated that the upper reaches of the Thames were frozen over, that many severe < frosts prevailed over the whole of England and Ireland, that twelve ice fatalities were reported, and that several more men have been frozen to.death.)

THE UNION BANK. DIVIDEND OF TEN PER CENT. Received January 9, 8.52 a.m. LONDON, January 8. The Union Bank has declared a dividend of ten per, cent, and a bonus of two per cent. The sum of £IB,OOO has to the credit of the colonial * premises account, there has been carried to reserve £30,000, and carried forward £36,000.