EXPORT OF GOLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 7

EXPORT OF GOLD.

Exceptionally Large Shipment From London. TRANSVAAL WEEKLY OUTPUT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 4. An exceptionally large export of gold was arranged in London on Tuesday. Bar gold to a total value of nearly £3,000,000 was bought for shipment to the Continent and the United States. Of the total amount, £1,959,000 worth was taken out of the Bank of England, and £1,000,000 worth, which was bought in the open market, represented the weekly arrival of gold from the Transvaal mines.

AIMEE ARRIVES.

mbs. Mcpherson at London. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. Mrs. Aimee McPherson arrived at Liverpool Street station from Norwich and will begin a campaign in London. Fifty members of the London Four Square Gospel Church, including fashionably dressed women, loudly cheered her while there were a few shouts of, "We do not want you" from the remainder of a considerable crowd. While she walked from the platform she was besieged by admirers, while a Four Square supporter sang""lhe hymn, "Tell the world you've found the precious Saviour." Mrs. McPherson was motored off amid further cheers.

STEAMER LATE.

SHIP WITH PASSENGERS. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) EDMONTON, October 4. The Hudson Bay Company's Arctic steamer Distributor with about 30 passengers and a crew of 30 aboard, is eight days overdue from Fort Smith. She left Aklakvik, on the Mackenzie Biver, on September 12 and was due at the port on September 26. In the Mackenzie distances are tremendous and low water is forming an ice line which, at this time of the year, is likely to cause trouble. Much anxiety is felt..