GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(BI TEI.EGOAFH— PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrIrRIGnT.) AN AMALGAMATION. (Rec. January 6, 11.15 p.m.) . London, January 0. A provisional agreement has been arranged for tho amalgamation of the London Joint. Stock Bank and the York Cifcv and Country Banking; Company. : f■: A RECEIVER APPOINTED. , (Roe. January 6j'16.55 p.m. ) ! , London, January G. : .. On,.behalf .of. the! first .mortgage debenture, ■holders,'receiver and a'manager have been [appointed", for'' Messrs."'lnd; Cbope' .'and • Com.pany, Burton-on-Trent and Romford^.,with.a.view to,arranging a reorganisa'tion. • j \ ■■■. V . TROUBLE IN PERSIA, ' nl.l Jis . I . Teheran, January .5. .Ikbal-ed-Dowlch, the reactionary governor ;of Ispahan, who. was notorious as an, extortioner,: has been deposed : by the constitutionalists and the Bakhtiari tribesmen, who restored order., - . ROBBERY FROM A-CATHEDRAL. ' Copenhagen, .January 5. , ,A German who was arretted in connection 'with _the desecration ofi'tHe royal graves in ltoskilde Cathedral confessed to the. crime, and gave information lending to the recovery of tho gold ant,! silver wreaths. THE PAPAROA'S CARGO. ; ... •• • London, January. 5. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer i'aparoa, whioh ;has arrivea here after putting back to St. Vincent with fire in her hold, has jettisoned 16,000 cases of damaged cargo. p s : v CHILIAN LOAN. London, January 5. The Chilian 5 per ceut. loan of £3,000,000 at 96J was over-subscribed in a fow hours. COUNTRY - SEAT BURNED. London, January 5. . Pickhurst Manor, at Hayes, in. K&nt,-.the residence of Huntley Walker, has been burned, the dsmago amounting to £40,000. The property destroyed' included fourteen' motoroars. AN ART EXHIBITION.]; . London, Janaary, 6. A collection of .three hundred and fortysix oil pictures made by, Mr. George M'Culiough, formerly prominently connected with milling industries in Australia, and a noted collector of modern contemporary art, will be exhibited collectively at tho Royal Academy in place of the 1 usual winter exhibition of old masters. r The newspapers contain caustio critioisms of the extremo catholicity of Mr. M'Cullough'fl. taste.' Mr. Henry Howarthy writing ,to "The Times," I states that it is understood the. collection is to be sold. ; 1.-:'- WEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Perth, January 6. -The Stato Parliament has re-assembled. Tho Premier (Sir N. J. Moore) moved the adoption of the Premiers'. Conference resolutions (which include the States' protest against the Commonwealth's Surplus Revenue Act, a. cause of diminished_ State revenues). NEW SOUTH WALES COAL-MINERS. Sydney, January 6. The Teralba coal-miners.,', while accepting •the award of the Special Mining Court, consider it unsatisfactory. ' • - .- - • INTER-STATE CRICKET—GEHRS BATS WELL. The inter-State cricket: match South Australia v. Victoria—in which'the visitors scored 127 in their first innings, and Victoria 346— was. resumed to-day. The wicket was slow after three doysj rain. South Australia, in their second innings,'have lost nine wickets for 351, the chief scores being Mayne (not out) 142, Claxton 35, Gehrs 75.