GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 June 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

WHEAT SUPPLY. Received 8.55. LONDON, June 27. The American visible wheat supply is .19,318,000 bushels; Chicago wheat quotations for July options, opening at 210 cents per bushel, closing at 209 cents; September options, 187 and 184|. CHANGING GERMAN TITLES. Received 8.55. LONDON, June 27. The Duke of Teck becomes Marquis of Cambridge, Alexander BattenBurg becomes Marquis of Carisbrooke, the family name of Battenburg becomes Mount-Batten, after the headland overlooking Plymouth harbour. The earldom of Medina is named after a river in the Isle of Wight.

A FIVE TO ONE CHANCE.

OF ENDING WAR THIS YEAR

LONDON, June 26

Lloyd's underwriters, for the payment of a hundred guineas if the war be in progress at the end of 1917, was demanding 80gns, the premium proportionately decreasing to 30gns at the end of 1918.

This form of insurance, which is not permissible here, really amounts to a straightout gamble on the length of the war. The offer practically means that according to Lloyd's the chance of ending the war this year is five to one against, the odds gradually lengthening.

RAMSAY MACDONALD'S TRIP.

EMBARGO WITHDRAWN.

LONDON, June 26

The executive of the Seamen and Firemen's Union passed a motion recommending that the embargo on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his companions going to Russia be removed, now that the purpose is achieved of drawing attention to the sufferings of British seamen during the war.