GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 5 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

]| "ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT.". '. LORD KITCHENER'S ALLEGED j SPEECH DENIED. Received 4, 11.25 p.m. i Melbourne, October 4. The Defence Department cabled Sir •George Rcid, High Commissioner for 'Australia, asking if Lord Kitchener's cabled statement that the war is un- , likely to last long was correct. , Sir George Rcid replied that the state- '. 'Blent attributed to Lord Kitchener was ! absolutely incorrect. London now cables that Lord Kitchener's statement was taken from the • Globe's report of a farewell gathering ', - of Territorials a,t which the captain repeated what Lord Kitchener had said when inspecting them. L r LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. i . PREPARING FOR RE-OPENING. i Received 4, 10.30 a.m. t London, October 2. 1 The Stock Exchange Committee has postponed the settlement of August, September and October Consols account and ordinary accounts up to mid-October Wntil November 18; November Consols •ceouirt-Juntil December 1, and taken powers to suspend the rules with reference to defaults. Theso steps arc regarded as preliminary to the partial re-opening or the Exchange. Received 4, 4.15 p.m. I' London, October 3. < Three hundred actors and 150 county crioketera an serving with the colors, ircluding Douglas, Warner, Sewell, Brytbe and Spooner. . The Board of Trade has completed arrangements for special unemployed grants to trades unions were unemployment ie abnormal. The grant amounts to one-thdrd or one-sixth of the associations' unemployed benefit. k ISSUE OF TREASURY BILLS. !" ' Received 4, 5.5. p.m. 1 London, October 3. The Australasian Associated Banks kave reduced the rate of purchasing grafts by 20s per cent., and the commission for collecting bills on Australia and Hew Zealand by 5s per cent. The Government is inviting tenders for 15 million six months' Treasury bills.