GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICAN CAPITAL FOR MELBOURNE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, Feb. 1. The Lee Higginson Company are floating a 2,500.000 dollar general mortgage at 7| per cent., with a currency of 25 years and with a sinking fund in gold and bonds for the Melbourne Electric Supply Company.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LOSS THROUGH MINERS’ STRIKE. Capetown, Jan. 31. It is estimated that the daily mining, loss amounts to £35,000 and the additional loss to the community £830,000. —-Reuter. EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. San Francisco, Jan. 31. Two mild earthquake shocks were felt in California and Oregon. There was a slight shock in San Francisco.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. POPLAR’S RELIEF PAYMENTS. London, Jan. 31. The Poplar Guardians resolved to defer payment of the new scale of relief until they reconsider the financial position.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. UNPARALLELED HUMAN TEMPERATURE. London, Feb. 1. A doctor attending a girl influenza patient in Bristol was astonished when his clinical thermometer recorded a temperature of 112 degrees. Believing the thermometer faulty he tried two others and each registered 112 degrees. Treatment reduced the temperature to 9G.6, but the following morning the girl’s temperature had risen to 114 degrees, which is unparalleled in medical history. The patient has since re-covered.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.