GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 16 January 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

N.S.W. WOOL EXHIBIT,

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) (R eived 31.39 a.m.) The New A wool ex hit. t at the textile branch of the Leeds University is attracting much attention. QUEENSLAND LOAN. The Queensland loan is closed. The underwriters anticipate receiving a large proportion. THE SNOWDON RANGE. The steamer Snowdon Range, which was towed to Queenstown with a broken rudder, has reached the inner harbour. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY. Raphael’s Madonna. Dellaquerciu, which was lost for a hundred years, was discovered in an Italian nobleman’s chapel. It had teen smuggled to Loudon, and is now at the Hotel Cecil, guarded by four detectives. THE PUTUMAYO ENQUIRY. Mr. Gubbins, Chairman of the Peruvian Amazon Company, re-called, admitted that a Putumayo account book prior to 1910 had disappeared, and he was unable to account for the loss.

ACTORS IN DIVORCE. Joseph Lewis, diamond merchant, has divorced Fanny Ward, the actress, the co-respondent being John Donovan, the actor.

SPANISH AFFAIRS,

Madrid, January 15.

The King gave audience to Senhor Agiarate, the Republican leader. The latter states that the King favoured theextension of the franchise, religious toleration, old age pensions, and the liberalisation of education.