MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6871, 15 July 1909, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

ly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright COLONIAL OFFICE'CHANGE. (Received Jnly 14, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. Air G. y. Fiddes, principal clerk in the Colonial Office, nos succeeded Air B. L, Antrobus as assistant UnderSecretary to tho Colonial Office. SCOTTISH MINERS’ STRIKE. LONDON, July 14. Eighty thousand Scottish miners will go out on strike on tho Sfftb Inst. ' AN INDIAN LOAN. CALCUTTA, July 14. The Indian Government is issuing, on the 28th inst., a Si per cent, loan of 250 lakhs of rupees (nearly £1,500,0001. CANADIAN LOAN. LONDON, July 18. It is understood that Canadian usdernvritors secured 55 per cent, of the now Canadian Si per cent, loan of £6,600,000. ITALIAN MARATHON HERO. LONDON. July 13. Dorando, the Italian long-distance runner, is overwhelmed with proposals to take part in competitions in 1910. He declares that he will probably give the preference to South Africa and Australia. AN ADVANCE TO ABDUL HAMID. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 13. Tho director of the Deutsche Bank at Constantinople has handed to Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan of Turkey half a million sterling. Abdul has promised to transfer the amount to the Turkish Minister of War. AMERICAN PACIFIC FLEET. NEW YORK, Jnly 13. The American Pacific fleet will bo dispatched to tho Philippines at the end of the forthcoming naval manoo-i uvwea.