GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3604, 16 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PRICE OF SUGAR. OTTAWA, Oct. 15. The Government to-night suspended the* Board of Commerce order fixing the price of granulated sugar at 21 cents per pound, pending a hearing before the Governor-in-Council on October 20th. -.-■,- 5j - - • - Premier Meighen stated tonight that the doubtloss be finally rescirided.r THE CARINTHIA PLEBISCITE Received 9 a.m. VIENNA, Oct- 15. In consequence of the adverse plebiscite, two Jugo-Slav battalions have entered South Carinthia. The inter-Allied Plebiscite Commission has resolved to participate in the administration of the zone. ANGLO-FRENCH LOANS. i NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Anglo-French loans in the United States, amounting to five hundred million dollars, will mature to-day, and upwards of two hundred million dollars will be paid to bondholders by the J. P. Morgan CompanyCUBAN FINANCIAL CRISIS. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Local bankers have shipped ten million dollars to Cuba in the last three days to ease the troubled situation there. In response to an appeal from the Cuban President for financial help a conference will be held at Washington to-day- It is rumoured that a syndicate of banks and sugar interests is to .form a pool to secure raw sugar at gseven cents per pound. STANDARD OIL IN FRANCE. PARIS, Oct. 15. Le Matin states that the chairman of the Standard Oil Company arrived with the intention to start a French branch. This is expected to affect a reduction in prices. FINLAND AND RUSSIA. HELSINGFORS, Oct. 15. It is officially notified that peace between Finland and the Soviet was signed at Dorpat yesterday.