MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2348, 2 January 1915, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS

ALLOCATION OF GIFTS

London, December 31. 'A special committee of the London Chamber of Commerce allocated the consignments of food sent by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce to English and Welsh municipalities; also toTiospitals which are receiving wounded; Large quantities were distributed to Belgian refugees and French soldiers' families. Monetary grants were made to various soldiers' and (sailors' funds, also to the Siberian and' Montenegrin relief funds. EAST COAST RAID. FURTHER DEATHS. ;. . London, December 31. Further deaths have been reported at Hartlepool. They now total 108. K SUBSTANTIAL GIFT. ; London, December 31. "The .committee of the Australian voluntary hospital has received seven thousand pounds from Mr. Colin Stephenson, of Sydney. .'. WAR RECIPROCITY. BRITAIN AND AUSTRIA. Melbourne, January 1. Hha Imperial Government has advised : the Department for External Affairs that the Austro-Hungarian Government has agreed to grant protection to money belonging to British subjects lying in Austro-Hungarian banks during the waf .if the British Empire agrees to a reciprocal arrangement. GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. * Sydney, January 1. _ The Government has decided to subsidise pound for pound all money subscribed during the current month for the relief of the Belgians.

CERMAN CARCO. IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. (Rec. January 1, 8.40 p.m.) Sydney, January 1. In the action against the HamburgAmerican liner Scandia, now sheltering in the Dutch East Indies, for the delivery of goods, the Java Court has ordered the delivery of the cargo without the payment of general average or cost of discharging. It is believed the judgment has an important bearing on the shipments of several Gorman vessels bound for Australia iio'w sheltering .in the Dutch East Indies.

AMERICAN TRADE, 'AFFECTED BY THE WAR. (Rec. January 2, 0.5 a.m.) New York, January 1. Tha United Stateo exports deoreased .73 Bullions sterling ijt flOEcjnier. e& tlw

- : . v, —;- ;._ .; v -. result of the war; Germany's eonsiimpJ! tion of United States goods ;in Novem-' bcr was eight thousand sterling, compared with nearly ten milliona , '.iii "previous November. j - DEAD SOLDIERS. BURIALS IN ENGLAND. (Rec. January 2, 0.5 a.m'.)''';^, '"■.'• London, January' li\. The War Offico has decided to defray tihe cost of conveyance of the bodies ofj soldiers dying on active 'service where | the relatives specially desire, the : funerals to be near their homes, also to 1 allow 1 a sum for expenses. ••■. -;>s'. •