GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 205, 18 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE QUEENSLAXD LUAX. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, January J-ti. The underwriters take 81 per cent,. of the (Queensland loan. TAX ON" MATCHES. Vienna, January l(i. The Minister of Finance is introducing a tax on matches, to produce £ii(M).000. THE LEVER CONCESSION'S. . London, January Ifi. The Liberian Senate rejected the proposed concessions to Lever Eros. AN UXDESIRAISLE IMMIGRANT. Washington, January HiMr. Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, has ordered My] ins to be deport■ed, holding that his libel against the King was an offence involving moral turpitude. ■ STOCK CERTIFICATES STOLEN. New York. Jamiary Ki. At Chicago Mr. W. D. Wade, president of the Australian Marine Fibres Company. Ltd.. reported the theft of a satchel containing stock certificates valued at £BO,OOO. The satchel was snatched from Mr. Wade on his arrival at the railwav station. A BOOKMAKER FIXED. London, January Ifi. Alfred Pattman was fined £IOO. including costs, for keeping a betting house at Poplar". Pitt-man employed six cyclist «eotit* and fifteen agents, and made £IOOO in three months over small 1 bets. ! BUFFETED BY THE GALE. London, January 10. The Furness liner Avala. bound for Boston, returned to Queenstown. _ The captain and several seamen were injured during the tempest. The rudder w:u; smashed, also the deck cabins and lifeboats. 1 THE LOST LINER. London, January Ifi. The steamer Neptunis, which was reported to have foundered, turned up i safely at'Helsihfffors. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. London, January Ifi. Five firemen were killed owing to the explosion of a boiler on the French 1 steamer Madonna, i SITOE-FACTORY BURNED, j London, January Ifi. Sexton's shoe-factory at Norwich ha* j been burnt. The damage is estimated |at £IOO.OOO. A thousand ha nils have been rendered idle. THE .RUSSIAN REGENCY. St. Petersburg, January lt>. As a result of his morganatic marriage a ukase has been issued establishI inc°a guardianship over the Grand j Michael. nud relieving him of the Ketrenev, which had been entrusted to linn I in the event of the death of the (z.i. ! before the heir appftrent's majority.