CABLEGRAMS.
London, April 14. The protests against the Tasmanian Loan by the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company have been made on the ground that previous loans were misappropriated. The protests threaten to imperil the success of the loan, financiers deprecate the high minimum at whiih the loan is to be put on the market. The Hon. E. H. C. Br-ddon, Minister of Lands and Works in the Tasmar.ian Government, and who is now on *, visit to London, in a letter to the Times, says that he is prepared to prove that th* allegations and protests against tha loan ar* groundless. Messrs Mason and Barry, pvrites merchants, have commenced an action agaimt the Societe des Hetau. Competent authorises state that it is impossible to frame any set of resolutions that will bind mine owners to restrict the production of copper. Baron de Worms, in a speech, referred to the short production of sugar this season in Cuba. Toe result of his statement has been to advance the price of sugar beet to 19s 3d. Six hundred Danish emigrants are missing. They were passengers on board the A taianta, bound for Amerioa, which ship has been found a derelict in the 4tiantie Ocean. Scotland beat England at the International Football Match on Saturday at the Oval.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 287, 16 April 1889, Page 2
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214CABLEGRAMS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 287, 16 April 1889, Page 2
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