CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1934, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

. PALESTINE LOAN. (Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 19. It is announced that a loan for half a. million sterling at four per cent, has been negotiated by Israel M. Sieff with Lloyd’s Bank and the Anglo-Palestine Bank, on behalf of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The loan will be used for the consolidation of Jewish settlements in Palestine and for the development of new ones. ITALIAN CAPITAL. ROME, December 19. A new decree has reduced the amount which persons may take •abroad from Italy to £35. Commercial travellers abroad may not draw more than £35 per month. LONE VOYAGER. LONDON, December 19. “The Times’s” Karachi correspondent says: Oscar Speck, a German seascout arrived in a 641 b rubber canoe, wherein he left Hamburg two and a-half years ago. He expects to take as long to reach Australia, his destination. “COCOS KING” TO PAY. LONDON, December 19. The Crown sued Clunies Ross, known as the King of the Cocos Islands, for £16,000. super-tax, dfle 1921/30. n _ Sir T. Inskip, on behalf of the Crown, pointed out that the Cocos and Keeling Islands were given to Clunies Ross by Royal grant years ago. He explained that, in addition to Cocos, Clu,nies Ross owns a. large number of shares in the Christmas Island Phosphate Company, from which came big dividends. Judgment was given for £16,656. . IRISH CITIZENSHIP. DUBLIN, December 19. The Dail passed the Citizenship Bill bv 51 to 36. .