RUSSIAN FINANCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 7

RUSSIAN FINANCES.

THE PROJECTED LOAN. fPKBSS ASSOCIATION.] (rtecedved April 11, 9.57 a.m.) LONDON, April 10. The St. Petersburg correspondent- of the Times learns that Russia is issuing a five per centum loan of ninety-two millions, starting at eighty-five. Bankens alone are invited to subscribe. France is taking fifty millions, -and London, Amsterdam, and New York four millions each. - Russian banks take thirty millions instead of | Berlin. The sum of twenty-five millions \ out of the itotal ie required to pay Tecent j issues of short-dated bonds, and the bal- j a-nce will not- suffice to pay the expenses of the war and famine, and meet the deficit of the Budget.