Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 30 May 1913, Page 6

Second Edition GENERAL CABLES.

*'!!'. THE THAMES SITE. £|>y EIjaiOTBIO TULEGBAPH—Coi»YBIQHT] [United Press Association.] ■Bci-di London, May 29. . 'wW** Great Eastern Railway, and not and Co., are'the purchasers M.,|he Thames- site. The machinery 'auctioned. '*■ SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LOAN. /'""' •. ! ' London, May 29. South Australia is placing a halfmillion loan of Treasury hills on a market basis at 4£ per cent. ||lE OF VALUABLE PICTURES. (Received 10 a.m.) '' McCullook's sale to-day realised J5(77,000. Sir John Millais' picture, "Isumbraa af tffe Po¥d- w 'bVmiglrt 7800 guineas. Mr Cecil Lawson's "Marshlands" brought 1800 guineas. jfaa latter was for the Felton -bequest for Melbourne. fa ' '.* POLAR RELIEF PARTY.. Berlin, May 29. ' : A telegram from Archangel states •pat several wealthy men are organking a motor boat expedition to Nova Zembla to search for Lieut. Seedow's polar expedition.

tv kOCIDENT, ON BATTLESHIP. u , (Received 11.40 a.m) ov London, May 29. c 'jlA thirty-one pound shell burst prematurely aboard the battleship Colossus in the North Sea and several men were injured by the flying fragments.

DEALING WITH EMIGRATION London,' May' 29.

The Chronicle suggests that the spard of Agriculture should build J&QOO cottages at £l6O getting 3 to 3s •6d weekly rental, and aoqluiring land of an agricultural value i!f< order to assist in staying agriculjgpf&l depopulation.

M NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. (Received 10 a.m.) London, May 29.

; ; |ptar South Wales has placed 750,($0 Treasury Bills for a year at 4 per ceiyt. • • ■

8? BELGIAN CONGO. (Received 12.45 p.m.) London, May 29. ;! Sir Edward Grey; in the Commons, referring to reforms in. Belgian Congo,.■declared that, Britain recognised the annexation. PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADVICE. • . Washington, May 29. ,The five per cent differential tariff Sul.favor of American-ships has been dropped at President Wilson's initance. fcj ' ARMY MAN'S SUICIDE. (Received 12J55 p.m.) ■ Vienna, May 29. .Colonel Real, an active officer' ; on {to general staff, committed suicide wieh on the point of being arrested od charges of immorality and selling Official secrets to a foreign Power. Ileal had been heavily blackmailed.