PREPARING FOR TRADE EXPANSION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 19 January 1912, Page 7

PREPARING FOR TRADE EXPANSION.

(Received Jan

19, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, Jan. 18. The Hamburg-American Steamship Company proposes to increase its capital by a million and a quarter sterling in view of the opening of the Panama Canal.

OTTAWA, Jan. 18. A coroner's jury decided that the death of a woman killed in a street by a. car was an accident due to the overcrowded state of the car and the failure of the brakes to work. The authorities have been urged to regulate the overcrowding of cars. A Bill has been introduced into Parliament amending the criminal code by making the holding of race meetings illegal unless the associations controlling them are inooroprated.

NEW YORK, Jan. 18. At Atlanta, Morse, the banker, is dying. [As the outcome of criminal charges in which he was implicated Morse underwent imprisonment for a term, "but was released later on account of ill-health.]

The Rev. Dr Macfarlane has been arrested at Greenville, Tennessee, at the instance of a coroner's jury, on a charge of being guilty of the death of his lady secretary, Elsie Coe. One million's worth of securities have been taken unharmed from the Equitable Life building.