GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Received February 10, 1.55 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 10. Stock Exchange morning sales: Bonds, 4 tier cent., 1938, £lO2 15s; 1941 £lO2 15s; 1947, £lO3 3s 9d; 1953, £lO2 2s 6d; 1955, £lO2 7s 6d; 1959, £lO3 2s Gd; 1961, £lO3 15s; Commercial Bank of Sydney, £l6; Colonial Sugar Coy, £55; British Tobacco, 34s 9d; Australian Gas A, £7 4s; Toohey’s Brewery, 20s 7id; Tooth’s Brewery, 35s 6d. At the Newtown Stadium last night, in a twelve round bout, the New Zealander, Harry Lister, obtained a points decision against Jack Heeney. Although lie received a cut over an eye in the sixth round Lister forced matters to eventually win. BATAVIA, Feb. 10. A correspondent aboard H.AI.S. Java wirelesses that they have sighted the cruiser Seven Provinces containing tile mutineers. LONDON, Feb. 10. Last week’s influenza deaths were 1911. . . , Sir John Simon, in the House of Commons, late last night defended against criticism the Austrian Loan Bill. BERLIN, Feb. 9. To assist tlie distressed farmers the Government has increased the live cattle and pig industries to 50 marks per double hundredweight, sheep to 45 marks, fresh meat to 100 marks and specially prepared meats to 280 marks and lard to 50 marks. VANCOUVER, Feb. 9.

At Seattle, Jack Aledica, of the ■Washington Athletic Club, bettered Arne Borg’s 400 free style record in a.n exhibition swim during a meeting here to-night between the Washington Athletic Club and the Vancouver Club. Medica’s time was 4 minutes 22 2-5 seconds. BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 9.

Twenty-two thousand tons of Argentine wheat have been sold to Shanghai millers, to be shipped before, the end of the month. This follows a recent wheat shipment to Japan, causing the grainmen to hope' that Oriental consumption will help to dispose of the Argentine surplus.