MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume L, Issue 14985, 4 June 1914, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable.—Pre*-. Association—Copyright) The Melbourne City Council has sanctioned the flotation of a loan of £300,000 at 4. per cent., with a currency of 20 years.

Major Norton has resigned his position as Trad© Commissioner for South Australia, and has been appointed manager of the British Dominions Producers' Association.

A Peking' message says that Mongolia, has notified tho Powers of its independence of China. Consuls havo been sent to Urga to negotiate treaties of peace and friendship.

Tooth and Company, brewers,, bydnoy, have decided to issue 137,600 new shares aa a bonus to_ ordinary snareholders. This makes o.' ,500 shares distributed in the shape of -onuses iv four yours.

By way of celebrates its *2?>th anniversary, a New York -othodisfc book concern presented each of its 1000 employees with an insurance policy equal to a year's salary, the amount aggregating a million dollars.

A Sydney message says that a man entered Mrs Skinner's house at Clyde and demanded money, threatening to brain her. On the pretence of getting him money, sho secured a revolver and fired two "shots at the intruder, who, shouting *Tm shot!" escaped.

T, W. H. Crosland, the author, was committed for trial at London on a charge of conspiring with Lord Alfred Douglas in accusing Mr Robert Baldwin Ross, literary executor of Oscar_ Wilde, of committing an offence of a disgraceful nature.

It is reported from New York that scarlet fever has mado its appearance in Auburn Prison. Isolation of the patients is impossible. The epidemic *a attributed to infection from wigs used by tho prisoners in theatrical pcrform-anc-S.

Five sticks of dynamite, with lighted fuses attached, were found under tho offices of tho Department of Agriculture at Washington where Secretary Houston was at work. Tho men who found, the fuses extinguished them. A discharged employee is suspected.

The South African Income Tax Bill provides that shipping companies carrying on business in tho Union shall be asseesod ou £5 in every __I_o payable to the company, whether payable inside or outside the Union, in respect of passengers, live stock, mails, and goods shipped in tho Onion.

Lourdes is crowded with pilgrims .says a 'Titnes"-Sydnoy -Sun'" message). No sperial miracles manifested in connexion with '-"c T-rocession of fiio Blessed Sacmm.-***' '—t r.-_ro

was an expression on even ~ 75 transcending all pain. A priest was present, who- until he visited tho shrine in 1912. was paralysed in both legs.