MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

NEW SOUTH WALES' LOANS. -'' (Rec. November 3, 11.45 p.m.) . Sydney, November 3. The New South Wales Legislatiea Council has passed the Loans Interest Bill, empowering .'the Government to borrow at over four per centum. Mr. Flowers (State Treasurer) explained. that the Bill was necessary, arising oub of the war. It will operate for a veMv andlhe hoped to be able to borrow ay a reasonable rate, perhaps five per lent*

OPENING OF THE COTTON •:'■•■, EXCHANGE. ' U .'. /.:.;,> (Reo. November 4, 1.15 a.m.)" '"' • New YorU, November 2. '■* 'A scheme is afoot, by 'which a Nerf York Bank will lend ten million dollar* (£2,000,000) to members of the Cottoß liscbange to facilitate the re-opening of the market soon after' November 16r It is reported that Liverpool bankers will make a similar loan to the Liverpool cotton brokers to permit both Ex* changes to open simultaneously,. /

EIGHTEEN' MILLION .GERMAN ' RESERVISTS. London, November 2. ■ Geiman experts say that possesses eighteen million military reservists. AUSTRALIAN MORATORIUM. Sydney, November 3. The' termination of the moratorium to-morrow is regarded favourably. . . . , .BERLIN IN- WAR TIME, London, November 2., A Danish'newspaper correspondent at Berlin says that the city wears its usual autumn aspeot—"gloomy weather, slippery pavements, and fog, pierced bg' «■ .nrofußion of aro lamEs," '