GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1780, 19 June 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 9 VICTORIAN LOAN. (Rec. June 19, 0.30 a.m.) London, Juno 18. Tie underwriters will not be required to take up more than 30 per cent, ,of tho Victorian loan. Tho debenture-holders ,\vill take up the balance. ARMED AUSTRALIAN LINER, London, Juno 18. The Thomistocles, which is among fciio first of the armed Australian liners, sails to-morrow. BOILER-MAKERS' DISPUTE. London, June 18. Tho Boiler-makers' Union Executive has advised tho members to, accept the masters' terms, OBITUARY. London, June 18. The Rev. Samuel Augustus Barnett, Canon of Bristol, is dead. P. AND 0. COMPANY. London, Juno 18.; The Peninsular and Oriental Company is starting a new monthly service bo-, twecu Loudon, East. Coast ports, ■ and Australia, via the Cape, by means of steamers .of the Palma class. crTcket. London, June 18. The South Afrioan Cricket Association proposes a programme of 24 matches for its Marylebono tour, opening at tho end of October, and including fivo test matches. LATE SHIPPING. 1 Sydney, Juno 18. Arrived.—'Waitomo, from Bluff. TO DIZZY HEIGHTS. ' Vienna, June 18. Illner, the aviator, has aeronlaned with two passongera to a height of 16,830 feet. ■ AN AVIATOR'S TOUR. St. Petersburg, June ,18. >: Brindejonc, tho aviator, has arrived from Paris. He (lies back via Helsingfors, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. LYTTELTON FERRY: WAHINE AT BUNBURY. Fremantlß, June 18. The Union Steamship Company's now ferry steamer Wahine, which ib to mn in tho AVel 1 inpton-Lvttclton service, has arrived at Bunbury from the Clyde. CALAMITOUS EARTHQUAKE. London, June 17. The earthquako killed upwards of a hundred people in Tirnovo and the neighbouring towns. MR. WATT LEAVES LONDON. London, June 17. A representative of tho Colonial Office, Sir George Reid, the Australian AgentsGeneral, and many Victorians faiwelled Mr. W. A. Watt, tho Victorian Premier, at Victoria station.

FLAX-GROWING IN ENGLAND. London, June 17. A Flax and Hemp Growers' Society has been foraed to promote a revival in flaxgrowing. Two areas, at Sclby (Yorkshire) and Yeovil (Somerset), have boon planted. GOVERNORSHIP OF CEYLON. London, .Tune 17. It is officially stated that Sir Robert Clio liners lias been appointed Governor of Ceylon. ■ fSir Robert Chalmers, 1v.C.8., has been Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Auditor of the Civil List sinco 1911. Ho was formerly Assistant-Secretary to.the Treasury, and Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.] LONDON MARKETS. London, Jim©. 18, The American visible supply of wheat cast of the Rockies is 54.914,000 bushels. The wheat market is steady. • Copper, on spot, JGGS 2s. Gd.; threo months, .£O4 7s. Od. Electrolytic, «£G9 10s. Tin, on spot, ,£204; three months, ,£2ot'ss. Lead. £20 10s. Imports, .£17,940; J27302.