MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
The King and Queen visited Edinburgh. and nru now in Glasgow. Their Majesties received a groat welcome. Towers armed with quick-lirers for dci'c-tice against airt-rnlt are erected around Portsmouth Harbour ami el&evvhere oil the coast. Jn the House of Commons the Prime Minister proposed a ri'solution allocating time for ths Finance Bill, llr ]<onar Law moved an amendment which was defeated hv 269 votes to 240. The coal' exported from Newcastle for the last half year totals 2.507.99S tons, an increase of 326.328 tuns. New Zealand took 320,040 tons, an increase of 28 : 0()0 tons over the previous half veav. Fore mn export increased bv tons. The findings of the Empress of Trrhuicl comiiiisiou are -expected on Saturday. ' 'flic steamer Sioi'stadi was sold under the Admiralty (.'our.', s order and fetched £30.000 the purchasers bring the originai owners. The Storstadt was held as f:\--iiritv for damages "i> an action brought at the instance oi the CaiuuVan "Pacific Company, and will .he released when the pui-elia.se money is paid. The sieamer Star of India wirelessed to Melbourne that she sighted four lar<!o icebergs in latitude south, mngitiKlo Klodejj;. ca-t. a position ill whtch they are dangerous to navigation. Kabbiters found a twenty-ounce nugget- in an oid-iime. alluvial ground at Bimningong. . Subsequently an outcrop of pa.yab',e quartz was discovered.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15393, 9 July 1914, Page 3
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219MISCELLANEOUS CABLES. Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15393, 9 July 1914, Page 3
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