MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 90, 24 March 1924, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Air. Alelion. Secretary of the United States Treasury, has announced that Finland has completed funding a 9,000,000 dollar debt to the United States for relief supplies furnished since the armistice. This transaction completes the second debt settlement, Britain’s being the first.

A lightning strike oi Prague waiters failed to achieve its object to prevent a banquet for the Restaurant and Cafe Proprietors’ Association. The waiter's downed dishes and picketed the hall, but the proprietors cooked their own dinner and voted the banquet a complete success.

Heavy rainstorms are interrupting the telegraph lines in Australia, and causing delays in inter-State news.

The Ling Uam has sailed from Sydney for Wellington with several hundred youthful Chinese aboard en route to South America to settle..

Aloischa Natensohn was arrested at Harrowgate, England on a charge of theft from an hotel bedroom in September, 1923 of jewellery valued at £40,000. the property of Samuel Pincus, a London jeweller.

Air Bowden announced that the Commonwealth Naval Board was considering the establishing of a fuel supply depot at Darwin oy some other northern port for the Australian Navy.

The Commonwealth statistician reports that for 1923 there were 135,222 births in the Commonwealth compare ] with 137,496 for the previous year; and deaths numbered 56,236 compared with 51.311 in 1922.

An 18-inch outcrop of anthracite coal has been disovered on the Manning river (New South Wales). The analysis is highly encouraging. It is anticipated to develop a workable seam at Do great depth. It is important as the first anthracite found in New South Wales.

Rain caused considerable damage in Sydney and the suburbs. Many houses were flooded and orhards in the suburbs are ruined.