THE FINANCIAL BAROMETER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16718, 12 June 1916, Page 5

THE FINANCIAL BAROMETER.

ANOTHER RSSE. LONDON, June 9. Consols: £00 ss. War loans: £89 17s 6(1, £95 17s Gd. [This is a furthc r riso of £1 in Consols, £1 2s 6d in the 3] per cent, war loan, and 2s 6d in the 4 per cent, war loan in 24 hours. The previous rise was attributed to the success of the Russian oflensive, and presumably this is duo to the same cau«e ] HAMPSHIRE SURVIVORS. THEIR TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. LONDON, June 9. The survivors of the Hampshire wreck suffered terrible experiences. When the rafts weie launched the sea was so heavy that it completely enveloped the Hampshire. The rafts came ashore five miles from the wreck. The first intimation the islanders had was from a seaman who, in an exhausted state, tottered to a farmhouse. He was incoherent. The farmer believed that a patrol boat had sunk. Later the full extent of the disaster became known. Ten of the 12 rescued men are now reeo\ering. Several rafts were flung into the crevasses on the rocky coast, and the task of recovering the dead is hazardous, the bodies having to be hoisted over the face of cliffs with ropes. COUNTRIES. SILVER COINAGE DISAPPEARING. LONDON, June 9. The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent states that silver is disappearing from Austria. Bulgaria, and Turkey, iron, si eel. and lead bcinc substituted. Bulgaria has ordered £400,C00 worth of steel and lead pennies and halfpence, and is issuing £60,000 in tenpence and twentypence bank notes. All the new Bulgarian money is being made in Germany. NORSE STEAMER, TORPEDOED. AMSTERDAM, June 10. (Received June 11, at 5 5 p.m.) A submarine torpedoed the Norwegian steamed Orkedal. The crew were lauded at Ymuidcn. HERR LTEBKNECHT. TO BE SENTENCED FOR TREASON. AMSTERDAM, June 10. (Received June 11. at 5.5 p.m.) The Wolff Press Bureau states that Herr Liebknecht has been charged with treason, and the military authorities will shortly pass sentence upon him. [Herr Liebknecht, one of the Socialist leaders, has for long bsen a thorn in the side of the Military Party, owing to his fearless criticism of the objects and conduct of the war.]