TRADE AND SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2236, 24 August 1914, Page 5

TRADE AND SHIPPING

TEN MILLION LOAN TO ' BELGIUM MEAT SPECULATORS BEING ROUNDED UP (Ifec August 23, 5 3 pm ) London, August 22. Tenders arc being invited for sit mouth's Treasury bills, whereof ten millions sterling ate required for a loan to Belgium. ■■ - i ■ • The "Gazette" announces' thet the Allies will adopt the "Declaration of London, subject to slight additions and modifications. : .■••■■"■ The Colonial Institute is assisting.in, tho collection of 'information for Brife isli manufacturers respecting German trade.. . ■•■■• •■ ■•■ ' Since the outbreak of the war twentysix vessels designed for Germany have been taken to Lirerpool. carried wheat and maize, to aconsiderablo value, which has been unloaded and sold to millers. --■■ Great Britain' tlio other day invited 'tenders for six mouths Treasury bills to tho amount of fifteen, millions* Tenders were received for a total amount :.«* *42.000 1 Q00.i ;■■ "'. V' ■ :

- SPECULATORS PROSECUTED. ■ ' - MEAT GUPPLIES ll* PARIS. (Reo. August 23, 10 n m ) m, .. Paris, August 21. mo polioo aio piosecutuig two larj-O '- Wholesale meat speculators for attompl- , to corner supplies. i _ Tho bullv. of the lailway rolling stock is resuming commercial traffic Supplies of all provisions aro plentiful and cheap as the number of consumers has diminished Veal is soiling wholcsilo at 4}d to 5d per pound, beef at a penny more. Tlieso. aro' almost tho lowest prices recorded. , AMERICA'S PURCHASE OF GERMAN LINERS. t (Ree August 22, 615 pin ) ! London, August 21, evening. . Commenting on Piesident Woodrow , Wilson's approval of Iho project of de--1 voting five millions to the purchase of ' _ Gorman liners interned in American ports, "The- Times's" Washington correspondent, referring to stones of Brit--1 ish objections, points out that Great Britain will suffer nothing by tlio transaction, as Germany will lose tho ships, I ' whereas if they -nero merely laid up she would-recover- them at the dud of. tho war. (Rec August 23, 5 5 pm ) Washington, August 22. j The Senate lias passed a Bill creating .« a bureau of ivar risk insurances and i appiopiiatmg a million sterling to cover 1 ani losses. _ ( President "Wilson has: "decided not to censoi American cables jet, but is j stiictly supei using luieloss messages. NEUTRAL MESSAGES. (Rec August 21, 0.20 a m ) ' Washington, August 23 The United States has decided to 1 relax tlio iviioloss consorship and abandon the cable censorship. This action was -undertaken as tlio result of dto- " ~ test by Geiminy. The British Government agreed to the relaxation provided that lurclew messages, although in ' code, were- of n definitely'neutral chaincter ,; 'THE MISSING CRUISER. (Rcc August 24 020 am ) ' - Washington, August 23 ■ Tho State Depai tment has ordered tho f authorities at San Francisco to refuse the steamer Ma/atlan a cargo of coal, J , boliei ed to be intended foi tho German cruiser Leipzig, whose nheieabouts are | unknown. ' ' ■ SLUMP' IN WAGES. ~* Tho Hague, August 21. i s A Dutch official, who was recently in i Berlin, states that wages havo fallen thirty per cent. Tho slaughter of cat- ; tlo lias been lestneted, the object be-

SfX ...•"■:. \in'g to obtain Dutch cattle aiid reserve (■),'. TV.' -■■';'.. the -German" catthv ' ■.','.'., r v ,v ; y/,- ..'.; K-i •■ '^'vv-■;;■, NEWS-AND NOTES. I !, ;v;:_ ■;. '" ; /.;; PRINCE OP "WALES'S FU?ID. ; . '" !' '".,,: (Rec. August. 23,.-10'!Lm.)'. ~' : K;:/ ■ ~> 5 August-vSl;' , '■.- i;/!•; ;.:•: 1 : •; ; .>.The"Prince of AVales's Fund.■ (for ;the' i;;lV; .'relief'"of distress 'among vthe.Vjwor' , of, !.•'• '--■■' ; , ; f. Great' Britain- and Ireland)' lias ,'■ reached !:'•;;,■ a■■■■.tofallbf'-£l;4S0;00p.. : -/''.■.'::'"'; : :;.:i-y ;..- f : .; ; ' i :The Now Zealand- executive controH- !':■ '•,'■' ..i'ing the .overseas contingent's funds, oorij.V ..■ '■;■ -sista of ;Lbrd Plunket, Sir Joshua :Wilf)■■'-., ■ L'ame,'Sir Jas. Mills,. Dr. .Chappie, and ; : ;; ; ; i. ;tho\Hori;T.: Mackenzie (High Commis- !: '.. , Bicnei-)'.rr("Times" arid L Sydney'."Sun"; ;;v?. ; , SpeciiirServices:)^.;;.'';;'.', v. , -i, [;..:■'• :'":;^Voraen'aro,acting |as: tram'conductors: • ;': in Berlin,"and old men as drivers,— ;';;■•.';:. (JlTinies".-aadi : :Sydney; Special ;■.■.-■• :-'_:' ■■ : :..•'-.■.•. , ..:...■•."■.■■ ■;,■.:■>> ■' p~: :■.:._ The.Ceylon,Tea Planters'-'.Association H>t.■'.■;■ : ' has offered a , million, pounds of tea for f" . ..- tho use-'of the British' troops in the ?>;.;'••■■' ■;'. field.; .:■.-■..j. .f;.'■,-..■ : .;.•; •■ •. , • ':,/.; fy^- ;.;•■. '-,■■ '■;■ The Board of Trade announces,that, ' subject to certain: conditions, German ;■ >';V6 .-; articles patented in England may be. ?'\;-'■!;-.made by British "citizens. ■.'.'-,. ~ . ;%'/.. "It is expected that part of the Naf „;; , tional Relief' Fund will he handed to ';X'<-.-':'' ;;:.- .-'; I : '.--;-.'■',•.'■..-•' ' ■,' p : . -."• 'All unnaturalised .German waiters in ;; ; j ,; the London .hotels have''beeii dismissed. ' i r : . , —(''Times" and ; Sydney ''San"' Special ;.::V: .Services.)' '•'-.'";■■"..;■.•,'■ '