VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1914, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

(Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.—-Copyright.) ; (Received July 14, 11 a.m.) BULGARIAN LOAN. SOFIA, 13th July. A contract with German banks for a twenty-million loan for Bulgaria has been signed. The Sobranje is now discussuig the terms. [ [The loan carries 5 per cent, interest. The first half will issue at £84 at the end of the present year.] (Received July 14, 10 a.m.) NEW STEAMERS. LONDON, 13th July. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has placed with Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Belfa-st, an order for a steamer of 15,500 tons. A contract for a similar vessel ha 3 been placed with Messrs. Caird and Co.. .Greenock. HOLIDAY-MAKING BERLINERS. BERLIN, 13th July. About half-a-millian Berhners started on their holidays within the week, which ils a hundred thousand more than in the same week of 1913. Three hundred special trams weie run. DANGERS OF THE BULL RING. ( MADRID, 13tb July-. A bull-fighter was about to kill a bull in the ring, when the animal suddenly rose and knocked his swoTd high in the air. The sword's point, descending, gashed a spectator's throat, killing the latter. Later, Luiz Freg, a prominent bull-fighter, was fatally gored, in the cheist. SMALLPOX. ..SYDNEY, 13th July. One case o>f smallpox in Sydney and one in Moree have been reported. BITTERLY COLD IN ,NEW SOU^H WALES. SYDNEY, 13f-h July. The weather is bitterly cold, and heavy frosts and snow are being experienced in th© highlands. DIVIDENDS. SYDNEY, 13th July. ! The declaration of dividends payable id 'July trinket the total distributed m dividends for the year £8,329,166. BRITISH WHEAT CROP. LONDON, 13th July. Tho Times, in a preliminary Teport, states that the British wheat crop is about 95.1, as compared with a tenyears' average of 91.38; barley and oat© are slightly below the average; beans, 94, at* compared with 91.34. A poor hay crop is predicted.