GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9043, 9 March 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

JOHANNESBURG, March 6. The Transvaal Premier, General Botha, states that the late Mr Kruger left 14,000 sovereigns and 48,000 blue-backs, which had been offered to Lord Milner (late High Commissioner for South Africa), who refused to accept the money, which is still in the bank. SUVA, March 6. The steamer South Australian has arrived here, and reports that while at Futuna Island, in the New Hebrides Group, the purser, Mr Withings, went ashore, and was attacked and tomahawked by the natives. He was rescued by a party from the steamer, and conveyed to Rot'umah Island, north of Fiji, where he arrived in a dving condition. LONDON, March 7.

A site has been chosen for a Shakespeare architectural monument —a statue in Park Crescent, looking down upon Portland Place. An effort is being made to raise £200,000 for the monument, and in further- • ance of Shakespearian interests. The Bank of Australasia's annual report recommends a dividend of 14 per cent, and a bonus of 8s a share. | The sum of £60,000 will be added to the reserve, £IB,OOO placed to the premises account, £17,000 absorbed in a 10 per cent, bonus to the staff, and £16,074 carried forward.

There were one hundred wreaths on Lord Linlithgow's coffin, includ® ing tributes from the Commonwealth and the Agents-General. The King and Queen sent a message of sympathy to the Marchioness. At a memorial service held in the Chapel Royal, the King, the Prince of Wales, Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, and Mr A. J. Balfour were represented. Those, present included .the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Elgin, Loid Roberts, Earl Carrington, and a number of leading Australians. The death is announced of Lily Hanbury, the actress. She died in child-birth. BERLIN, March 6. The Kaiser sent £I,OOO for distribution amongst the detachment of Cape Mounted Police who killed the chief Morenga in German South-west Africa.