GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 246, 7 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE SCOTT FUND. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Received 0. 11.10 p.m. London, March 0. The Scott fund has now reached £4t.-: 000. THE AMERICA CUP. London, March G. Liptori's challenge is m ""cordance with a deed of gift that Charles Nicholson, of Gosport. should be the builder of a new yacht to be named Shamrock IY. OFFICERING THE FLEET. Loudon, March (i. The Admiralty has announced that the J taking of cadets from public schools, aged between eighteen and nineteen .'s a remedy for the shortage of officers. 1 STEAMSHIP AMALGAMATION. London. March 0. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Com-, pany has acquired the Nelson line. THE EAST INDIA STATION. London, March 0. The battleship Swiftsure will become the Flagship on the East India station. THE SHIPPING TRUST. New York, March 0. Mr. Herman Winters, manager of the Cunard Line, giving evidence in connection with a Government suit for the] dissolution of the Shipping Trust, said that the rate wars simply drew the companies closer together. They did not, agree upon rates in order to driver weak- < er companies to the wall. A DISASTROUS FIRE. j Cairo, March 0. i Two hundred and fifty houses in anj outlying suburb have been burnt. FiveJ hundred and twelve people were killed. THE DOMINIONS IN LONDON. Received 7, 1 a.m. London, March 0. Lord Grey States that lie and his per-: • sonal friends are interested in the over-] seas Dominions, and have subscribed a 1 guarantee fund of £IO,OOO in connection with the Aldwyeh site on the Strand, if; the Dominions choose to manage the proposed building, which it is hoped will become the London Home of the Overseas Dominions. The promoters will retire without profit. If the Dominions do not care to take the responsibility, the promoters will build the premises and take all risks. Tlie maximum profit would be 5 per cent. A RUSSIAN CELEBRATION. St. Petersburg. March 0. The streets were splendidly decorated and illuminated for the celebration of the tercentarv of the Romanoff line ascending the Throne. Special services were held in the churches at which the Czar's manifesto was read recalling Russia's progress in civilisation, industry and art. LOST ON AN ICE-FLOE. St. Petersburg, March fi. Fifty-five fishermen at Astrakan were carried to sea on an ice-floe. * THE BREAKING OF THE DROUGHT. Received 7, 12.10 a.m. Sydney, March 0. After over a month of sweltering droughty weather a heavy thunderstorm occurred and rain is falling. THE UNIMPROVED VALUE . Sydney, March G. The Citv Coun«il has increased the unimproved' rate to a in the pound in order to cover an anticipated deficit of £OO.OOO.