VARIOUS GABLES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1912, Page 7

VARIOUS GABLES.

By Telegraph.— l'rees Association.— Copyright (Received March .25, 8.10 a.m.) BAIOt AMALGAMATION. LONDON, 24th March. The Bank of Africa and the National Bank of South Africa are arranging to amalgamate. [The Bank of Africa-, Ltd., was estabished in 1879. Its headquarters are in London, and it has branches in Cape Colony, 'Orange River Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, and East Africa. The authorised and issued capital is £3,000,000 (£1,000,000 called up.) The National Bank of South Africa, Ltd., established in 1890, was known up to 1902 as the National Bank of the South African Republic, Ltd. It has 112 branches. The issued capital is £1,100,000, all called up.] (Received March 25^, 8 a.m.) FUNDS FOR AMUNDSEN. CHRISTIANIA, 24th March. The fund to make up the deficit on Captain Amundsen's Arctic expedition is assured. OCEANA'S BULLION. LONDON, 24th March. The underwriters have paid £750,000 to the insurers of the bullion (of the value of £1,000,000) which was lost through the recent foundering of the P. and 0. Liner Oceana after a collision with tho German barque Pisagua, off •Beachy Head on the 15th inst. This is tho promptest settlement on record. TWENTY PERSONS DROWNED. MADRID, 24th March. A fishing boat foundered at Almeria, on the Mediterranean coast. Twenty persons were drowned. BRITISH INDIA COMPANY ACQUIRES MORE STEAMERS. ''-'' LONDON,' 24th' r March. The British India Steam Navigation Company has acquired Apcaf and Co.'s Far Eastern Fleet. [The British India Company's fleet numbers 117 vessels ; that of the Apcar Company five.] AVIATORS KILLED, ST. PETERSBURG, 24th March. Two military aeroplaniste were killed during a flight at Sevastopol. FANNING ISLAND. LONDON, 24th March. The Fanning Island Company, Limited, with a capital of £200,000 is issuing £125,000 worth of shares. The object of the company is to develop the phosphates, copra, and coconut trade of the inland. NEW CRUISERS. LONDON, 23rd January. The two cruisers which it had been hoped would be ordered from the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company's yard are being laid down in the Royal Dockyards. [In January last, the Admiralty, replying to the Receiver (the Thame3 Ironworks Company went into liquidation some- months ago) stated that the Thames Ironworks' tender for two cruisers was £312,000 each, compared with £269,000 elsewhere. Unless a substantial firm was willing to construct the cruisers on the Thames at prices approximating those ruling in the trade, the orders for the cruisers must be given elsewhere.] P. AND 0. SHARES. LONDON, 22nd March. Deferred chares in the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which spurted three days ago to £285 on rumours of a general consolidation of Far Eastern shipping interests, are today quoted at £335. SUPPOSED SPIES RELEASED. LONDON, 24th March. The four Germans arrested near St. Helens Fort, Isle of Wight, on suspicion of being spies, have been discharged. They were apparently excursioniste. BOMBS IN OPORTO— BODIES RECOVERED. LISBON, 23rd March. Ten bodies have been recovered from the ruina of the barber's shop in Oporto, where bombs Were being illicitly manufactured and which was blown up by the accidental explosion of a. bomb while a fuse was being tested.