CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19888, 27 March 1930, Page 11

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

w BIG FEB FOR CARNERA. (Received March 26th, 8.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 25. It is announced that Camera has signed a contract to receive 150,000 dollars from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for three weeks' work portraying Hercules in a Lon Chaney moving picture story. JOURNALIST OBTAINS DAMAGES. (Received March 26th, 7.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 26. William Rutledge, a journalist, sued the "Sunday Times" Newspaper Company for £2OOO for wrongful dismissal from his position as editor. The jury awarded the plaintiff £242. MB J. E. FENTON'S PROBLEM. (Received March 26th, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 26. Mr J. E. Fenton (Australian Minister of Trade) is wrestling with a pro. blem which has exercised many of his Labour piedecessor3, as to whether Labour's decalogue forbids the wearing of kneo breeches at the King's Levee on March 27th. The indications are that Mr Fenton will be swayed by appreciation of what a member of the Cabinet owes to the Sovereign. NATIVE WOMEN ABDUCTED. BRISBANE, March 26. Two natives escaped from the Palm Island aboriginal settlement after abducting two women. A search has so far been futile. CHINESE SHIPPING LAWS. SHANGHAI, March 25. Navigation laws aiming at the exclusion of foreign shipping companies from China's coastal and inland trading are being promulgated by the Nanking Government. WOOL AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY. LONDON, March 25. Two hundred thousand workers in the wool and textile industry in Yorkshire held a ballot which, by 72.1 per cent., rejected the employers' proposals for a reduction in wages. Twenty-one point two per cent, were in favour or acceptance, and 6.7 per oent. wero neutral.