VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8527, 3 September 1907, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BONDS. Received September 2, 8.43' a.m. LONDON, September 1. South Australia announces in connection with the half-million four per cent, bonds maturing in January that holders can surrender or convert into three and a-half inscribed stock, receiving 30s cash. ANGLO - RUSSIAN AGREEMENT. Received September 2, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, September 2. The Anglo-Russian agreement has been signed. Received September 2, 9.34 p.m. LONDON, September 2. The Anglo-Russian agreement was signed in London. The Times hopes that the agreement will prove a most important instrument for securing the peace of the world. The general tenor of the Russian press is favourable. The Daily Chronicle says that a section of the Liberal Party view the agreement with some apprehension. CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Received September 2, 9.25 p.m. NEW YORK, September 2. The Central American Republics have agreed to hold a conference in Washington early in 1908. COLLAPSE ,OF A TOWER. Received September 2, 9.39 p.m. ■ LONDON, September 2. A tower, 300 feet high, of the famous Sanctuary of the Crucified at Boca, collapsed owing to the foundations being disturbed. A regiment of infantry had quitted the basilica a few minutes before. No lives were lost, though numerous remarkable escapes are reported. The loss is estimated at £IOO,OOO. A chapel containing the supposed miraculous image of the Madonna is intact.

GOVERNMENT ISSUE OF BANK NOTES.

Received September 2, 9.34 p.m. LONDON, September 2. The Times hopes that Sir John Forrest's idea for a Government issue of bank notes will be quietly dropped, as the proposal would be received with misgiving by all well-wishers of Australia. A DAMGAED WARSHIP. Received September 2, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, September 1. Repairs to the warship Commonwealth will occupy months. One hundred feet of the bottom of the vessel on the starboard side is seriously damaged, and the plates badly dented, her frame being forced through the ship. (The first-class battleshiip Commonwealth struck a rock in Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran. She later steamed to Devonport for repairs. The whole of the double-bottoms of the vessel were flooded, the water spoiling 400 tons of oil fuel).