MISCELLANEOUS CABLE.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14844, 9 December 1913, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLE.

(By Cable.—Preee .Association—Copyright.) The Crystal Palace purchase fund still requires £30,000, towards which £10,000 has heen anonymously promised, provided the rest is subscribed.

Servia is reinforcing her troops on the Bulgarian and Albanian frontiers, p- r v)ire!icnding attacks by marauding bands oil the new Servian territories.

The Houlder-Shire Shipping Company arcr.ounco substantial increases to chief, second, and third officers, and also concessions in travelling expenses.

Tho Canadian-Pacific Railway Company has let a contract for the construction of <i ten-mile tunnel at Roger's Pass, Columbia, to be completed in three years.

Twenty mounted robbers plundered tho estates of the Governor of the Caucasus at Kavkaskaia. During the ensiling fight eleven were killed and six wounded.

Six men have been sentenced to death, and 131 to lorn; terms of penal servitude in Formosa, in connexion with n conspiracy instigated by Chinese revolutionaries.

A petition for winding up the Bombay Merchants 1 Bank was dismissed. The judge held that the petitioners nought tr> talce advantage of the financial crisis, and should be taught a lesson.