GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4494, 23 October 1901, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AGRICULTURE IN AUSTRALIA. (Received October 23, 0.45 n.m.) SYDNEY. October 22. Official estimates show that there are 88,750 acres less than last year in -wheat. OATS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. OTTAWA, October 22. The Department of Agriculture is ship ping half a million bushels of oats to South Afrioa. THE BAGDAD RAILWAY. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 21. A German is offering Turkey a three million loan, asking for the completion of the Bagdad railway and other mono, poliet. MINOR ITEMS. BERNE, October 21. Signor Spelterini, an Italian aeronaut, has cros.ed the Jungfrau range (13,671itj in a balloonBERLIN. October 21. Nino thousand residents ot Berlin, including lormer officers in the army, have appealed 1 to the public of Germany to assist in an anti.aueliing campaign. , LONDON. October 21. Mr George Wright, K.C., SolicitorGeneral for Ireland, has been appointed a Judge of the High Court of Ireland. Mr James H. Campbell, K.C., succeeds Mr Wright as Solicitor. General. Mr Whitaker Wright, formerly managing director of the London and Globe Finance Corporation, proposes a combine to reconstruct the corporation and the British American Standard Exploration Company, with a capital of two millions, half to be new shares. CONSTANTINOPLE. October 21. Two thousand Armenians at Mush, in Kurdistan, where the massacres were re. cently committed, have petitioned for permission to enter the Orthodox Greek Church, and thus secure'Russian protection.