CABLE MISCELLANY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12168, 19 June 1925, Page 10

CABLE MISCELLANY

Australian and N Z Cable Association A census is being taken all over Germany. It is the first since 1910. The Federal Loan Council decided to continue its operations during the next financial year. The Commonwealth Government will act as the sole borrower for the States, so far as new money required by them is concerned. Fire destroyed Penno and Co.’s bag factory in Adelaide, and a watchman, Walter Mail, was burned to death. A number of victims of the Hackettstown disaster have succumbed to their injuries, increasing the death-roll to 42. The train was a special one, with 182 Germans on board. One man who was pinned by the debris offered a rescuer a roll of notes to kill him. The disaster at Hsckettstown, New jersey was the result of a storm which undermined and twisted the rails no that the special train, carrying foreigners who were on their wav to take ship from America, was derailed. The late Fir Edward Sassoon left £488.849. The estate duties amount to £122,000. He was chief partner in the great Indian and China firm of E. D. Sassoon and Co., merchants and bankera.