GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 97, 21 May 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

W ESTRALI AN U)A.\. lleccivcd 20, D.43 Londoa, May 20. The Westralian loan is lu'iia vublc from 11)35 tu l'Jjj, a nil the hulf year's iutct'eu is payable uii tile Ist Octuber. .Received .May 21, 0.2U a.m. Perth, Lust Night. The Treasurer, considering the general unsettled state of financial affairs, is satistied that the loan dotation redemption will cost about AI3 10s 7d per cent. The money is intended chiclly tor railways and harbor works. rUEiSS DELEGATES IX CANADA. Received May 21, 0.20 a.m. London, May 20. The Press delegates are guests' af the civic authorities at Ottawa, They lunched at Parliament Buildings, and Earl Grey (Governor-General) entertained them to dinner in the evening. They were everywhere ovationed. SIvLLING FREEHOLDS. London, May 11). The London Progressives strongly oppose the proposal of the London Comity Council to sell freeholds at llolborn, the Strand, and Westminster, where improvement schemes are being curried out. Mr. Hayes Fisher state, that £200.000 it spent annually in interest on unlet land, and that the apparatus of tlie Works Department has already beo'i sold at it heavy loss. AGENT-GENERAL OP SOUTH AUSTRALIA, Londoa, Jlay 111. ..Mr. lvirkpatrick, Soulli-Awtrulia's new Agent-General, has commenced his duties in London, In succession to Mr J. 1!. Whiting. Scottish ciicncmx London, May 10. Dr. Archibald Henderson, of Crielf. and Dr. James Henry, of Hurghead, have been elected Moderators of tie United Free Church and the Free Church of Scotland respectively. THE ORIENT COMPANY. London, May 19. The Orient Steamship Company's report shows the profits to be ti11,072. and recommends a dividend of 5 per cent, on deferred capital. PUNISHING UI.ACKMAt I.F.iIS. New York, May 1(1. Governor Hughe-, of New York, has I signed il Hill increa-,ing 1 lit' sentence of I live year-,' imprisonment for blackmail to 1-1 years' imprisonment. Till-: WHEAT GAMBLE. New York. May 10. Owing to Mr. Ogden Armour purchasing a millio.i lmshcls of May wheat in Chicago at l:il). Mr. Patten immediately unloaded two million bushels. DISASTROUS I'll!I'! IN' PRANCE. Paris, May 19. Five building- at Lille, In the north of France, eontainiiii; 000,000 kilos of sugar and 400,000 kilos of Haw valuel at C 250,000, were destrovel bv lire, IA kilo, which is an abbreviation of kilogram, is equal to 2.2040 pounds avprdupuis.]

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