MISCELLANEOUS

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

PETROGRAD. October 23. Bankers favour an internal loan of one thousand million roubles. LONDON, October 23. The Government is drafting early a Bill prohibiting increased rents in tho war period. a One result of the air. raids is the notice rf a question whether Mr Asquith will arrange the working hours of Parliament during daylight. A receiving order in bankruptcy has been issued against the Duke of Manchester. One pound is the weekly minimum wage paid to women working on munitions. Mr Lloyd George has accepted the principle of equal pay to men and women in systems of payment by results. The committee of (he British Empire Industrial Exhibition has secured the option of a large site near the Strand to open immediately after the war. The object is the fostering of Empire products and preventing Germany from retraining tho markets. The advisory committee includes several \gents-General. NTMV YORK. October 23. Despite the Anglo-French war credit, the New York sterling exehano’C has reached a new low point. It is now 4 dollars 05 cents.