MISCELLANEOUS.

Western Star, Issue 911, 7 January 1885, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

In connection with the cablegram published this morning re the Stock Exchange protesting against the alienation of the sinking fund, the Press Association are requested to state that the Stock Exchange acts through its Committee of Management, and if it had taken any action it would have been taken through that Committee. That some members, as members, may have said or written something is quite possible, as out of so many there are probably men who write without accurate knowledge ; and to say that the alienation of the sinking fund is threatened is a gross perversion of tho facts of last session's legislation. It was expressly provided that before any sinking fund should bo absorbed the whole loan to which it belonged should be extinguished, or that sufficient should he left in tho hands of the trustees to pay off the balance of interest and .principal outstanding. Be that as it may, it is certain the Stock Exchange has taken n 6 action of importance, as the Government have been in close correspondence on the subject of tho loan with the Loan Agents during tho last fortnight, and no mention of anything of tho kind has been made. If there had” been any action worthy of notice it would have been reported to tho Government.

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The St. James Gazette says there is reason to fear that Germany intends to purchase the Dutch interest in New Guinea. Flies and bugs, beetles, insects, roaches ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chipmunks cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” Kemp* fchorne, Prosser & Co., agents, Christchurch.

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