CABLE NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 582, 5 December 1904, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(ONITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. . New Yobk, December 2. One American bank bas failed and several financiers are embarassed owing to the enormous loans advanced on a specious story by the borrower that she bad a million sterling worth of securities in a certain bank. Steps have been taken to compel their production. The borrower is the wife of Chadwick, a reputed millionaire physician of Cleveland, Ohio. She denies being identical with Lydia Dever, a hypnotist who was convicted of forgery, and whom she closely resembles.

Madrid, Dec. 2. A great snowstorm has occurred throughout Spain, and twenty thousand persons have been thrown idle.

Pekin, Dec. 2.

China has increased the transit duty to and from treaty ports. The Powers oave protested.

Sydney, Dec. 3. The German Consulate points out that the duty on copra was fixed at the Marshall group, and, therefore, was not the outcome of the projected return of the Xsabel to the group. Melbourne, Deoember 3. A Tariff Commission of eight members and a chairmen haye been selected; Tbey are all politicians, witk one exception. Sir John Quick has been appointed chairman!

The accounts of a local manager of a well-known firm whose headquarters are in London with branches throughout the Commonwealth are stated to show a shortage of £2000. The manager has been suspended. ;