"By Independent."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 July 1913, Page 2

"By Independent."

Cabled News From Abroad. (Sydney Sun). STRIKES IN GERMANY. London, July 2. There is a strike of -{(JUU employees at the Yulkan shipbuilding yards in JJreinen. There are now 500U men front the Stettin workshops on strike. UECUMiNC SERJOI'S.

Presiding at a meeting of tin .-shareholders, of the L'niuii Lam> of Australia yesterday, Mr li. i\ Sturgis, chaii'man of directors, said that although tin monetary position was becoming serious -many public am. private enterprises were waiting to come forward as borrowers, and that the demand was likeJ\ 10 he maintained. OIL IS ALSI.KALIA. In a special article, entitled '()H Companies as Investments," the Times sla.tes that several. Australian undertakings are dead, management, in conjunction with onerous labour conditions, having Ivd to disaster. IRISH LAM) K'IICHASE. Speaking in the House o, Commons yesterday, the Hon. A. Lin-cll, Chief Secretary fo, Ireland, estimated that £'<io,000,000, in addition to the i'l2-"),000,000 already expended, would be necessary to complete the operation of land purchase in Ireland, in accordance with I lie provisions of the Land Purchase Ads of 1!)(.):! and 1000. These Acts make it compulsory for landlords to permit then tenants to purchase the land that the latter cultivate. Mi Birrcll said hat it would lie necessary to borrow only I'l 4,000,1)00 through the public issue ol laud slock. CANADIAN WHEAT CUol'. Two or three English banks that do a large trade in billof lading on Canadian wheal have arranged special advances to assist in moving this season's wheat in Canada. Two important London banks have volunteered to advance £.">00,000 for the same purpose.