CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 June 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[eI KCTUIC TEIiBORAI'a —COPYUIOS'I .J [PKll PRESS" ASSOCIATION.I (Received This Day U. 15 a.m.) AUSTStA'LIAX i J R[^ON T EI!S OF AVAR AND IX>SSii,S. Melbourne, This Day. In tlie rieuate, Senator x'earce announced that an arrangement had been matte For the United States Snibassador at Constantinople to .supply information regarding Australian prisoners of war in Turkey. Senator Pearce emphatically contradicted "tho statement that the casualTies amounted to 10,000 monthly. J>nr men, have been lighting lor over moil til. and the casualties have not reacuetl 10,000. Many reported wounded are already back in the firing line. Ttie liospitifl ship has left Suez AvYEh II oflicers and 25 men eu roiite to Australia. Colonel Legge's appointment has ooen Ho is given the rank of Jiritjadier-Ucneral. ALLEGKD ÜBiiL. l\lr Alfred l''arlhiug. a member of tlio Legislatieo Council, claims £5000 damages trom Henry \\orrall, a minister, lor alleged libel contained in tlio words i have no hesitation in saying that Fartliing secured his .seat by threo agencies: rascality, rum and Rome. (Received This Day 10 a.m.) XATTON'AIi SHISIX r'AOTORV. liondon, June '20 1L Las been decMiled to establish ,i uaTToual sneTllacToTy at Birmingham. (Received This Day 5J.45 a.m.) THE STOCK EXCHANGE BAROMETER. Paris, June 20 Although the publication of Berlin Exchange quotations are iorblddeii under a severe penalty the iVJatin has ootained a reliable comparison of stock prices. Prussian 3| per cente quoted in August, 1914, at 751 are now 59: Imperial 4 per cents, then 96 are now .A ; Austrian 4$ per cents, then 95J are now 34.