GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1035, 26 January 1911, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

By ABseciation-Oopyrifiht — '»— :~ti- ' TO ATTRACT SMALL INVESTORS. (Hoc. January 25, 9.5 p.m.) London, January 25. Tlio "Daily Chronicle'-' states that the British Government .will shortly convert part of the National Debt into bonds to bearer for amounts us'low as ,£5: for tho purpose of attracting small investors. CHILIAN LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED. • London, January-23.' : Chile is issuing a loan of JCt/JUS.OOO tearing interest at 5 per at VS. Half tho amount is being issued in Germany and half in England. The English half of the load was subscribed ten-fold within an hour. • ■ (Rec. January. 26, 0.25 a.m.) • New York, January-25. The three men wanted for forgery at Sumner, Washington, are still holding the .authorities at bay. An attempt is to bo made- to storm the cabin. The men are believed to have been concerned in a recent murder. 'LIGHT ON "A MYSTERY. Melbourne, January 25. ' In connection with .the discovery' of a portion of a human leg at Carrum, it now transpires that a boy found the leg while fishing, arid placed it in a bag. The leg is supposed to have belonged to a person drowned in tho bay. ■ MB. LLOYD-GEORGE. London, January: 24. Mr. Llyod-George,. Chancellor of tho Exchequer, who has been suffering from an affection of tho throat, has departed for Italy. ; ' WELSH MINING STRIKE. ''. ; . London, January 24. ■ At a national conference in London,, representing 600,000 miners,- it was agreed to financially assist the 12,000 strikers at the Cambrian mine, in South Wales.. . NUREMBERG-MURDER CASE, s Berlin, January 2-4. ' ■ Fran Herberich, who shot her husband, Dr. Herberich,.headmaster of the Nurenberg Girls' High School, dead last-April, has been sentenced to four and a half yoars' imprisonment. MRS. THAW ROBBED. "; : '. . • ' New York, January 24. Mrs. Thaw's residence at Pittsburj has been robbed of jewels valued, at '- . THE LAW DEFIED. Vancouver, January 24. Three., men accused of forgery at Sumner, Washington, havis fortified' , themselves in a cabin, and defy the authorities. - ... ';■ ; CHOLERA AT PERIM. : ' I Aden, January 24. There has been an outbreak of cholera at tho island of I'erim near the mouth of the Red Sea. ~ "• .. .. ■ THE,BRADDON. CLAUSE. • ' ' Melbourne, January. 25. .The final payment from the I'ederal Government to the States under the Braddon Clause, of the Constitution has been completed. ... ' ■ ■ ,• AN, ELECTRIC STORM. Tl ' Melbourne, January 25. ~ A pcrty of tourists on Mount Buffalo ■encountered an electric storm, duringwhich their hair literally stodd on end. Iho members of the party felt a tingling sensation; but- wero not injured. ■' ■ • ' STATEAND COMMONWEALTH!,. .', ■ . ' ■■'■• Sydney, January 23.-. ■Labour secretaries strongly ■ resent the ■utterances of Mr. , W: A. flolman, .State -Attorney-General, to the effect -that oW referendum question is of a sort to interfere, with State legislation. . ■ ' ..; ; . state' lending.' ,■';';- • , ■■.■■'• : . 'Adelaide, January 25. The , sum, of £1835 has been ■ advanced under the Advances)-for Homes Act. ■■•!