MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18148, 11 August 1924, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

An endowment of a convent for the free education of children of residents •of'the island of Anticosti (in. the Gulf of St. Lawrence) is to be made by Senator Monier, the French "chocolate king," and owner..cf the island. Mr J. H. Thomas, Colonial Secretary, is accompanying the British delegation. (ji the Empire Parliamentary Association, and the party has left, for South Africa. The Governor-General of C. mad a will entertain the senior officers of the British Special iServiee Squadron on August 22nd- at Government . House-. On August 21st the Minister of National Defence Mr Mac Donald, will entertain them as representative of the Government. A Sydney message says that after a week's deliberation on the deadlock between the Arbitration Court and the Federated Engine-Drivers . and Firemen's Association, the "executive of,the Association has decided to ignore- the Arbitration- Court and" seek a conference with the employers. ' At Portland, Oregon", the police arrested over two hundred Chinese charged with gambling and conducting lotteries in Chinatown. The . Chinese were each required to find a thousand dollars bail, and as a result the gaol is jammed with; frightened Orientals. ... .« • • The Prime' Minister of Canada on Thursday announced that. Canada's Ambassador to Washington would not be appointed for. some time, and said be had nobody in his mind for the post.