GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

jlliy Telegraph—l'ress Association-Copyright.) ■•RAISING OF WOOL FItEIGHTS/ ' (Hec. October 10, 0.-15 a.m.) ; London. October .15, • .At a, nieoting of wool-shipping eompniiios it wris decided' to .rftisS/.thci'tijjc ..on scouted;, wool sent from Australia ;to England from 11-lfiths of ii penny to 3d., iind to raise the rate. on groasy ivool from 9-16thsof a.ponny to 5-Bths' ot a penny. A I'R.INCKSS. WOULD MORTGAGE HER INHERITANCE/ ~ Brussels, October 11. ! Princess Louisp. of is endeavouring to raise n-live million loan on tlio pledge of her. inheritance in tho estate of 'her' father/ King Leopold. ! . . • JEWEIXIvRY THEFT. .V : -. . . .. London, Octobor 14. Thomas. James Stoekall, for theft. of jewellery, was'sentenced to nine months"imprisonment. He stole the jewellery in order to meet Stock Exchange,losses.

.RUSSIAN CAUCASIAN: OIL-FIELDS. .:, - .'.-.'. - London. October 14. Tho shareholders - of. the . Australian '■ Deep Leads' Trust',have approved of a,.proposal, by tho diroctorsto acquiro oil-fields at Maikop'; in the Caucasus, in conjunction with the Victoria deep leads. Th(> whole of tho directors tiro favourable to'tho proposition. '■-. -: -[Maikop is in the Kuban territory. 'A sensational discovery of naphtha was recently reported in Kuban.]' -. ~':".. . :

TASMANIANi NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION. '■■'!■'■''■ '. .- '•;- ; .'..; Hobart, October 15. In the House of Assembly, Mr. Swing moved a no-confidence motion on-tho ground that the Ministry had .broken its. pledge -to; remove anomalies under tho ability tax. The division resulted; Government, 18; Opposition, 11.