GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 55, 5 March 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Davis Cnp Challenges. Challenges for the Davis tup have heen received from Canada, Denmark and Czechoslovakia. — (A. and N.Z.) Left Over. President Wilson did not sign the Immigration Kill or tin- Army Appropriation Mill.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Mi. Harding'* Cabinet. The now President, .Mr. \Y, O Harding, has announced his appointment of Mr. James •'. Davis as Secretory for Labour, thus completing the Cabinet. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Argentina's Tariff. Legislation providing for an increase, in the tariff on North American products has been introduced into the Argentina! Chamber of Deputies—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Philippine Independence. The Governor of the Philippine Islands, in his last report to Mr. Wilson, urjips Congress In take final action to establish the Philippines on a basis of complete independence—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Wilson to Practice Law. The retiring President, Mr. Woodrow Wilson, has announced that he will practice law with Mr. BainKridge Colby. formerly Secretary of State—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Persian Reorganisation. The new I , rime Minister of Persia has issued v proclamation denouncing the undent regime, and announcing his intention to reorganise the civil administration, divide (iovernment land among the peasants, improve the conditions of the working classes, promote education, and organise the national army.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Mandates Committee. Mr. A. J. Balfour has appointed Mr. \V. (I. A. Ormesby-Gore, member for Stafford, to represent the British Kmpire on the Mandates Committee of the League of Nations. Mr. Ormesby-Ctore's travels have given him experience of all the mandated territory concerned.— (A. und N.Z. Cable.) J. 11. Hooper Farew/rlled. At a farewell dinner his friends presented Mr. J. R. Hooper, the Australian billiardist, with a gold watch suitably inscribed. Mr. Hooper, in acknowledging tlie gift, said that he had received nothing but kindness from this whole billiards fraternity, every consideration for his comfort and happiness being shown. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)