CABLE NEWS.
London, September 13. Mr Walters has patented a process for removing carbonic acid from cool chambers, which it is believed will be of immense value in dealing with fruit and butter. General Booth is about to open a Winter Industrial Home, with sleep-, iug accommodation for 1500, and working room for 600 persons, A committee is being appointed to enquire iuto the charges brought by the Canadian Salvationists. The Times thinks the financial and industrial crisis in Australia may convinco tho colonies of the necessity of closer union,
'Tho prospects of the Melbourne Board of Works' loan are worso than ever. City men say there is no chance uf even a Government loan being successful at preeont. London, September 12.
A heavy run has taken place on the Birkbeok Bank, Southampton Buildings, Chancery-lane. Theoicialsof the Bank declaro that there arc no grounds for suspecting its stability, and that they are prepared to meet any emergency. For the purpose of accommodating its customers, tho Bank will remain open until midnight. Tho Union Bank of London has guaranteed an advance of £I,OOO 000 if necessary. BrisdAnk, September 14, The North Queensland Export Company's butchers have struck, refusing to kill cattle from a station,the manager of which was instrumental in securing the conviction of two shearers some time ago, Sydney, September 14. The Australasian Cricket Council has decided to send a team to England next year. Calcutta, September 18. Reports are current in Simla that tho Russians have evacuated tho Pamirs, London, September 18. The run on the Birkbeck Bank continues. The directors have sola £500,000 worth of Consols to supply the demands of depositors. Many of the latter waited all night and thousands aro still waiting. The police are marshalling them twelve deep along the streets. The newspapers aro trying to restore confidence.
The Birbeck Bank lias £BOO,OO invested in colonial inscribed stock bonds, A tliief robbed a depositor of £llOO at themomoutof its withdrawal. Two othors also lost largo sums, but in the confusion the thieves escaped, Berlin, 13th September. Two hundred and nine deaths occurred in Hamburg yesterday, Twenty-eight thousand people have fled from tho city,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4219, 15 September 1892, Page 2
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358CABLE NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4219, 15 September 1892, Page 2
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