CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, 6 December 1904, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

ST. LOUIS EXHIBITION . CLOSED. NEW YORK, Deo. 2. The St. Louis Exhibition hag closed. While open it was attended by twenty million people. A GREAT SNOWSTORM. MADRID, Deo. 2. A great snowstorm has occurred throughout Spain, and twenty thousand persons have been thrown idle. GUESTS POISONED. BERLIN, Deo. 2. Twenty wedding guests, at Kate* linki, Germany, were killed by drinking poisonous brandy which had been secretely distilled. DISCONTENTED BURGHERS. CAPETOWN, Deo. 2. ' A large Congress of discontented Orange Colony burghers has been opened at Brandfort to discuss the non-payment of war compensation, education and other grievances. ANOTHER NEW ZEALAND LOAN. LONDON, Deo. 2. The New Zealand loan prospectus has been issued. The stocks are convertible into 8£ per cents within two years at 108, in four years into 101, and in seven years at par. NORMAN’S ESTATE. The late Field Marshal Sir Henry Norman's estate has been valued at £11,574. EMBEZZLEMENT. There is a deficit of £21,000 in the \rgentine Meat Preserving Coy 's moneys. Herbert Mott, the secretary, was committed for trial at the Guildhall on a charge of embezzling £4OOO and falsifying the accounts. A GIGANTIC SWINDLE; NEW YORK, Dec. 2. . One American bank has failed and several financiers are embarrassed owing to the enormous loans advanced on a spacious story by the borrower that she had a million sterling worth of securities in a certain bank. Steps have been taken to compel their production. . The borrower is the wife of Chadwick, a reputed millionaire physician of Cleveland, Ohio. She denies being identical with Lydia Dever, a hypnotist who was convicted of forgery and whom she closely resembles.