Various Cabled Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7710, 12 January 1905, Page 3

Various Cabled Items.

A LOAN UNDERWRITTEN. LONDON. Jan. 10. New South Wales two million four per cent, loan, with a minimum of 99J, with ten years currency, to pay holdcrs of a million Treasury calls and. £901,500 in bonds maturing in March'and July next, with the option of converting, has been underwritten at one per cent. "THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD." : LONDON, Jan. 10. The Right Hon. A. Lyttclton, Secretary for the Colonies, in a letter to Mr Charles Booth, the well-known writer on social questions, trusts that the coJonial authorities will • facilitate the success of the exhibition of Holuran Hunt's famous pictures "The Light of the World." He warmly sympathises with the undertaking. ENGLISH IN EGYPT. PARIS, Jan. 10. France has promised to consider in a very friendly spirit Egypt's circular to the Powers asking for the recognition of English as the judicial language, similar to French an* Italian. FRACTIOUS CONVICTS. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. News has been received that 500 convicts at Bilbid, in the Philippines revolted. Sixteen were Killed and forty injured, six mortally. BROKEN HILL. (Received Jan. 11. 9.16 p.m.) SYDNEY,, Jan. 11. The production of zinc at Broken Hill increased in three years from nil to 57,000 tons, valued at £113,]lB. The output of silver and lead concentrates during the year was 158,000 ions, and of silver and lead ore 15,600 ton* The total value of exports was £1,740,000. AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. Two swagmen in the Delegate district, while boiling the'r billy, started a fire, which waa extinguished without doing any damage. They were sentenced to two months' imprisonment. At a meeting of the executive of the relief fund reports showed that the damage had been exaggerated. JOHN NORTON AGAIN. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. Mr John Norton, of Truth, lias challenged the position of Mr Taylor as Lord Mayor, on tho ground that he is interested in contracts in connection with iminicipajl electric lighting in Sydney. The case has been adjourned. PRIMAGE CHARGE ON WOOL. SYDNEY. Jan. 11. A* dldercnce has arisen between wool brokers and shipping companies, owing to the latter imposing a primage value on wool. At a meeting of wool buyers it was decided to deaso purchases until the piiimage Is removed or other arrangements made.* HEAT IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, Jan. 11. To-day was the hottest day of the season, the thermometer registering 108 points in tho shade. THE UNION BANK. (Received Jan. 11. 11.54 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 11. a a 1 nion Bank declares a dividend of 10 per cent.. £IO.OOO is set apart for reduction „f bank SJJT'r acco,,nt « in the colonies. ?e£rv« 1 3.000 '* «*M to L S Md £27 '°°° is carr "« <°'- ■ IRISH LAND LOAN. B "A w « LONDON, Jan. n. Krisfi TT„.? f s ' x » n,i " ions unaer the Mgscovered twice over. ***£,*%, receive «7-aw eent.. »„,i