GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 254, 17 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. I l>y Cable—Press Association ---Copyright. London, March 14. New South Wales has had underwritten £3,00(1,000 4 per cent, ten years debentures at 98. The prospectus will be issued to-morrow. Applications close on Wednesday. A half year's interest is payable on October 1. YELLOW FEVER. Accra, March 14. There is an outbreak of yellow fever at Government House. The Governor's wife, who is Mrs. De la Pasture, the novelist, and 'the aide-de-camp, are both stricken with the disease. PARISIAN MODES. Paris, March 14. -There is a growing agitation among shopkeepers and dressmakers against foreign firms reproducing gowns, jewellery and furniture. M. Lepine, chief of police, has instructed the police to arrest anyone copying designs in shop windows or at race meetings, and to confiscate sketches and photographs. A LIGHTER RUN DOWN. New York, March 14. An unknown vessel ran down a steam lighter in Wiekoff Harbor. Nine lightermen were drowned. A MINE ACCIDENT. Capetown, Marck 14. I The fusing of an electric wire ignited the timbering at the Jagersfoutein Mine. Four natives were suffocated. There was an enormous fall of reef. A FATAL CYCLONE. Buenos Ayres, March 14. Owing to a cyclone, several persons were killed and many injured. Great damage was done to property. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. London, March 14. The Glasgow Herald reports a sensation at Cairo. The Khedive's consort, who was an Austrian, has disappeared, leaving no trace of her whereabouts. Every effort is being made to keep the matter secret. A TRAITOR SENTENCED. Berlin. March 14. Ileinrich Naujoks has been sentenced to thirteen years' imprisonment at Leipzig for selling plans of a German cruiser to foreign agents acting for France. FRENCH ROYALIST RIOT. Paris, 'March 14. Royalist students interfered with a meeting of Christian Socialists. Fifty persons were injured in the melee, some seriously. AWARD FOR SALVAGE. London, March 14. The Admiralty Court awarded £4300 to the owners of the steamer Glenloeby, and £ISOO to the officers, in connection with the salving of the Star of Australia. A DANGEROUS HAIR-WASH. London. March 14. The departmental committee on petroleum recommends that hairdressers be prohibited from using it. A VOLUNTEER FORCE. London, March 14. The Imperial Government has replied to New Zealand concerning the sending of a volunteer force to any part of the Empire.