BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14980, 28 April 1909, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. GERMAN LOANS. ' LONDON, April 25. •iWnty-four. million sterling of, Prussian consols and sixteen million of a' German Imperial loan are being issued, half of each at 4 por cent, and the other' half at 3J per cent. WITHDRAWN. tEVa Graat Northern, Eastern and Central Railways Amalgamation Bill lias been withdrawn, owing to Parliament granting a locus standi before the committee to so many interests. THE WINDELL FRAUDS. Frederick Reginald King, formerly a clerk in the employ of the London and South-western Bank, has been remanded at Bow Street on a oharge of forgery jnd complicity in Windell'a'frauds. SUICIDE OF A NOBLEMAN. LONDON, April 26. The Honourable Ronald Ramsay, brother of tIW Earl of Dalhousie, committed suicide" aboard the HamburgAmerican liner Cleveland in mid-At-lantic. NORTH GERMAN LLOYDS COMPANY. BERLIN, April 26. Herr Heineken, the new chairman of the North German Lloyds Company, states that the prospects are improving. The passengers for the first three months of the yeai equal the whole of those for 1908. There is no intention to amalgamate with the Hamburg-America Company. A FAMOUS BUDDHIST TEMPLE DESTROYED. 1 TOKIO, April 26. The Zojoji Buddhist Temple, in Shiba /"ark, ToSic, was destroyed by fire. ]