GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15552, 6 September 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Press Associoticn—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, September 4,

Mr Cherry, on behalf of the Commonwealth, has thoroughly studied the methods of dealing with foot-and-mouth disease.

Mr Waddy, an ox-Rhodes scholar from Sydney, has been appointed inspector of two ophthalmic hospitills in Egypt.

September 5. (Received Sept. 5, at 11.15 p.m.) ■ The foot-and-mouth disease has broken out in Flintshire.

Two express trains collided at • the Caledonian road station. i-K the Piccadilly lube railway, and 18 p'copio were injured. This is the first' tube railway collision in England.

PARIS, September S. (Received Sept. 5, at 11.15 p.m.) The maritime strikers at Marseilles have' resumed work.

BERLIN, September 5. (Received Sept. 5, at 11.15 p.m.) Replying to an interpellation by n Socialist, Hcrr von Sode'd, the Bavarian Minister of the Interior, deprecated the dear food agitation against the duties. Tic said the removal of the duties would lead to tlie collapse of Germany's economic life. The Government contemplated legislation to facilitate the importation of fresh meat.

MELBOURNE, Septembers. The Federal Government invites in Australia and New Zealand applications for a deputy governor of the Commonwealth Bank, starting with » salarv of £1500 and rising to £2000 "

Messrs fluddart, Parker, and Co. have declared an interim dividend for the halfyear ended June 30 of 6 per cent, per annum on the amount then paid on preference and prdinary shares.