GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 18 March 1910, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BT KLEU'J'EIO TELKGBAFH.—COI'TKIOHT. l'EIl UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, March 17. King Edward is recovering from his slight indisposition consequent on his -utracting a chill on tile journey froin l/ondon to Biarritz. Nearly £2,000,000 worth of New Zealand 34 per cent, bonds, convertible in five years, will be issued after Easter. The John Brown Company (Clydebank) and Fairfield Company (Govan), each contracted for the construction of an Australasian battleship. BERLIN, March 17.

A Bill is ready for introduction into the Reichstag combining seven existing industrial insurance laws into one. increasing the State contributions and extending and re-organising the system. Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg (Imperial Chancellor), during a debate ill the Reichstag on tile mining concessions in Morocco, made a remarkably direct appeal to every section of the House to place foreign policy above party and unanimously support the Government on all questions affecting Germany's position in the world. SYDNEY, March 17. The Roman Catholic laity presented Cardinal Moran with £2500 in recognition of his services to the Church and to mark his silver jubilee in Australia.

Tile barque Pharos, bound from Antofagasta, narrowly escaped foundering through being caught in a cyclone eightv miles off the Cook Group. She was thrown on her beam ends, the ballast shifting. The crew awaited the end, when a shift of wind caused the vessel to right herself, only to be thrown over on the other side, but she again righted.