GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1756, 22 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

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CHINESE LOAN ISSUED. London, May 20. The <£25,000,000 Five-Power Chinese loan has bseu issued. Of tho seven ami a holfmillions of the loan placed in London at 5 per cent., three millions have been applied for and fully allotted. ACTION OVER MUSIC-HALL SKETCH. London, Hay 20. Miss Matie Corelli, tin? novelist, is suing George Gray, the s<J-eall«l "Fighting Parson," for infringing the rights of her novel, "Temporal Power," in a music-hall sketch. RAILWAY ROBBERY. Capo Town, JJay 20. A mailbag containing -t'sooo in banknotes was stolen from a train between Capo Town and Pretoria. ALLEGED LIBEL. London, May 20. Richard Wootton, the ox-A ustrnlian horse trainer, is suing Robert Sievier for an alleged libel, in Sievier's paper, "The Winning Post." SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE. Sydney, May 20. Ths new steamer Willochra, chartered by the Union Steam Ship Company, will, in September next, replace the Aorangi in the San Francisco running. CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT. Havana, May 20. General Maria Menocal lias been inaugurated at President of Cuba. l'l?ars of riots proved groundless. BANNING THE CASINO. Paris, May 20. Tho Chamber of Deputies adopted by a large majority an amendment to tho Gambling Bill prohibiting casinos within a hundred kilometres (G2 1-10 miles) of Paris or in university towns.

BANK MESSENGER'S CRIME. Berlin, May 20. The bank messenger Bruning has bwn sentenced to four and a half years' imprisonment, and four accomplices to lesser terms. [In June of last year Bruning, a messenger of tho Dresden Bank, disappeared with .£13,009 belonging to tho bank.]