GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 62, 18 March 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

THE N.S.W. LOAN

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)

London, March 17

The Daily Mail says that the New South Wales loan will yield £1 os 9d per cent., inasmuch as better dcucutures are not available to irustces, but are none the less acceptable to general investors. The Financial Times says that the bonds appeal to banks and insurance companies, who have lately shown a growing preference for short-dated investments.

The Morning Post says that the loan i’s a good investment security for those requiring specially short investments.

BANK ROBBED OF £14,000. Rome, March 17.

A large hole was bored in the safe at Messrs. Scheggi and Borghi’s bank, at Rome, and £14,000 was stolen, along with a number of bonds.

CO-OPERATIVE COTTAGES,

London, March 17

The Duke of Marlborough, in a series of letters to tho Daily Mail on the land question, states that he is ploughing at Blenheim in order to increase the national food supply. The Duke of Marlborough, Lord Salisbury, Major-General Sir G. T. Pretyman, Lady Wantage and others are offering land to local bodies or societies undertaking to build cottages for farm labourers on co-partnership lines.

PRISONERS MUTINY

St. Petersburg, March 17

Many inmates of the gaol at Laipouets mutined, because they were not included in the Czar’s amnesty. The mutineers killed tho warder and wounded several. Order was restored by the troops.

BOMBS BURST AT THE POST

OFFICE

Calcutta, March 17

flfffl.taiaiag fca-jpjs » /id addressed tu the of English newspapers, exploded in the Post Office. Two persons were injured.

TRAIN SNOWED UP,

(Received 9.55 a.m.) Christiania, March 17

The train at Bergen is still snowed up, and’ ski runners are convoying food to the passengers.

SHOOTING AND A CROWD’S REVENGE.

Madrid, March 17

An Octroi official at Toledo shot a carter dead. A huge crowd fired all the Octroi stations. The Civil Guard restored order.

PROSECUTION FOR BLACKMAIL

(Received 10.40 a.m.) London, March 17

Cyril Maude, the actor, is prosecuting Reginald and George Tudor, clerks, for sending letters demanding immediate payment of money under threats of assassination.

PATRIOTIC MINERS

(Received 1.40 p.m.) London, • March 17

The Irishmen entombed at Townhead mine received a sprig of shamrock through the borehole. They will be released to-morrow.

AN AMBITIOUS DUKE

Rome, March 17

La Tribuna states that the Duke of Montpensier sailed from Naples with a view to starting a rising in Southern Albania, and proclaiming, himself Prince. The vessel carries arms and ammunition.