GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 58, 8 November 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

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The consolidated gold fields of South Africa will pay a dividend of ten per cent for the year, compared to seventeen per cent for the previous half year. The depreciation in the investments necessitates the withdrawal of a million from the reserve and the appropriation of £102,000 out of the year's revenue.

Mr Buncirnan (President of the'British Board of Agriculture), speaking at Huntingdon, said, the Government was going to spend £112,000,000 in the erection of ten thousand cottages, the rents of which would be calculated on an economic basis and the price of the land would be fixed at its agricultural value.

The Secretary of State for India has sanctioned the placing of three millions of the Indian Government's surplus at the disposal of the banks in Bombay presidency to meet the present financial crisis. This action is the result of representations made by the Chamber of Commerce of Bombay. Nine ringleaders of an abortive plot against the Ameer' of Afghanistan have been blown from a cannon. The port officer's son, another engineer, and several coolies perished in a fire aboard the oil steamer Twingone at Tuticorin. '

Three thousand Indian strikers have crossed Transvaal border at Charlestown. Five hundred others were previously arrested as deserters from a colliery.

Sir Arthur Lawley. speaking at a demonstration at Hull in connection with Lord Roberts' campaign, declared that our home defence was a counterfeit thing of shreds and patches. Ho hoped that Sir Lucas Tooth's followers.