GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 154, 4 March 1915, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A BIG PRICE. ’’reas Association—Copyright. RACEHORSE FETCHES 1200 GUINEAS. SYDNEY, This Day. Sam Horden has purchased the racehorse Onazer for 1200 guineas. THE BELGIAN FUND. £IOOO VOTED. MELBOURNE, This Day. BY VICTORIAN RACING CLUB. The Victoria Racing- Club voted £IOO to the Belgian Fund. Mr Fisher expressed his satisfaction with the New South Wales Government's attiude to the fund, and stated that probably the Federal Government would later do, something as a majority of members of Cabinet were favourable to that course, VICTORIA’S WHEAT PURCHASES. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Statje Government has purchased .two additional cargoes of Argentina wheat, making the total purchases 1,300,000 bushels. TEA PRICES.

ADVANCE ANTICIPATED. MELBOURNE, This Day. Advices from Colombo anticipate an advance in tea prices. PRIZE COURT DECISION. GERMAN SHIP TO BE SOLD. BRISBANE; This Day. Prize Court has condemned the in'crned German steamer “Signal,” and ordered it to be sold. SOAP NOT NECESSARY. SYDNEY, This Day. The Commodities Commission has ruled that soap is not a necessary commodity, SERVIAN RELIEF SYDNEY, This Day. The Servian Relief Fund grows slowly. It has reashed £1,702, THE SURREY MINED NO CARGO ABOARD RUN ASHORE AT DEAL. SYDNEY, This Day. Adviceh as been received tbeat the steamer Surrey, well-known in Australian trade, struck a mine off Dover, and was run ashore near Deal. She had no carg*o on board SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS

STUBBORN GERMAN RESISTANCE. SYDNEY, Tins Day. A returned soldier from South Africa states that the country is feeling the effcts of war much more seriously than Australia. A number of .Ministers anticipate that the Germans in South West Africa will offer a stubborn resistance. The Germans iu South East Africa are being left alone till the South West is taken. Everyone has 'he utmost confidence in General Botha, and the natives have given unequivocal proof cf hteir loyalty to Britain. A POLICE RAID, ART TREASURES RECOVERED. BIGGEST IN CRIMINAL ANNALS. LONDON, March 2. The pcllr-e raided an old manor ’ious.9 at Chiswick and recovered stolen arc treasures to the value of £IOO,-: 000. The most extensive seizure in Police annals ha,s been made. Sixteen rooms w’eqj filloj with a marvellous collection of rare gold, silver and bronze ornaments, beautiful china, and pictures, Including several by Reynolds. The arrest cf three m;en for stealing plate at Kennington led to the discovery. The occupier of the house is engaged in the muffin business

BELGIANS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, March 2. In the House of Commons, Mr Samnel, in reply to a question, said there were 65,000 Belgian men, 69,000 women and 46,000 children in England, besides 18,000 wounded convalescent soldiers, ■ ; | *r : T ,3r APPEAL TO SULTAN. TO WELCOME THE ALLIES. LONDON, March 2. Prince Salah Eddine, the Sultan’s nephew, exhorted him to welcome the British and French as liberators and conclude peace at the earliest possible moment in order to save Turkey from catastrophe. A SMUGGLER SENTENCED. COPENHAGEN, March 2. Albert Jensen, the ringleader in the copper smuggling affair, was sentenced to sixty dayh’ imprisonment.