GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144050, 20 March 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received March 20, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. The underwriters receive 84 per cent, of the New South Wales Loan. [ln the last New Zealand loan the underwriters were left with 80 per cent, of the loan.] PRESS CABLE CHARGES. (Received March 20, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. The Pacific Cable Board has relieved New Zealand, press messages of the charge of a halt-penn? a word, and is substituting a drop rate of eighteenpence per hundred words OIL WELLS ON FIRE. . BUCHAREST, March 19, The, petroleum wells at Banamoreni have taken fire. Seven people are dying as the result of injuries, and many were severely burnt. SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE. LONDON, March 19. Mr. Holman, interviewed by the Morning Post, justified ' the Government’s action over Government House. He said that if the Commonwealth failed to make proper provision for the Governor-General in ‘Sydney, the responsibility was not that of New South Wales. AUSTRALIA’S TRADE WITH CANADA. OTTAWA, March 19. The Trade Commissioner reports that in 1912 the English trade with Canada increased by £20,000,000, compared with 1911. Australia’s trade with Canada increased by £10,000,000.