VARIOUS CABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1911, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 20, 8.55 a.m.) SYDNEY SHOW TAKINGS. SYDNEY, This Day. The Royal Agricultural Show has closed. The total attendance was 252,000, and the takings £10,842, both, decreases on the figures of last year. This is a result of the wet weather on Easter Monday. BAGGED CEMENT. SYDNEY, 19th, April. Owing to the wharf labourers refusing to handle bagged cement, the Portland Works are at a standstill. ROYALTY. CORFU, 19th April. The Kaiser and Kaiserin entertained Queen Alexandra and the King of the Hellenes. LONDON BANK. LONDON, 19th April. The profits of the London Bank (? of Australia) for the year total £120,289. A preference dividend of 7 per cent., and an ordinary dividend of 5 per cent., were declared. A sum of £32,578 has been carried forward to reserve, and there is a bonus to the staff of 10 per centum. A sum of £22,372 is earned forward. [The 'London Bank of Australia, to which the cable no doubt refers, was established in 1893, being formed to take over the business of the London Chartered Bank* of Australia (incorporated in 1852). For the year ending December, 1909, the net profit, after paying interest on transferable deposits, was £49,970.] CHILIAN INDEPENDENCE. VALPARAISO, 19th April. The British warships Kent and Challenger, which have been taking part in the festivities marking the centenary of Chilian political independence, have concluded their visit,. Officers and men have been received with the utmost cordiality, and have been the guests at a series of entertainments organised in their honour. N.S.W. AND STATE INSURANCE. SYDNEY, 19th April. Mr. Carmichael, Assistant Minister to the Treasury, states that the premiums proposed by the New South Wales State Insurance Department are practically the same as those of private companies. (Received April 20, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The insurance companies look with 1 disfavour on the proposed State insurance scheme. They consider it is not a sound business proposal.