GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 227, 19 June 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telejraptt-Proia Aißociation-Copyrteht

Fire destroyed Burgess's furniture works and Hudson's engineering works at Marriokville, New South Wales. The damage is-estimated at .£30,000.

The Bristol Chamber of Commerce passed v a - resolution regretting Sir Thomas Mackenzie's retirement as a national loss,' and expressing ; the. hope that means would be found of retaining his. services in England.

The New South Wales Football Association is being registered as n limited liability company, with 'a capital of ,£SOOO, the objects,..inter alia, being the festering of matches with New Zealand.

Mr. W. A. Watt-has informed the Australian Press Association correspondent'in London that Mr. Hughes's statement is a gross misrepresentation of the position, and that he will take an early opportunity to lay the facts before tho Australian public. It is expected that Mr.'Watt will return' to Australia as soon as shfpping • accommodation is available.

A Reuter message from. Budapest announces- that the Minister of Justice has introduced in the National Assembly a Bill providing for corporal punishment for male profiteers,; with a •maximum of' twenty-five strokes of ( a bireh rod.

•'.'A Beuter message from London says' the' conversion of the Cunard liner Aqui-. tania to an oil-burner mniks an epoch in' tfiio history of mercantile marine engineering.' It'is expected that the ship will be ready Tin July to. establish a new trans-Atlantic record. The cost of the alterations will be over hatf ft million. She' will carry sufficient fuel for two voyages!

A Reuter message from Tokio states that a nephew,of Field-Marshal O.vama has been arrested on .a charge of selling strategic- maps ' and other rJocuments from..th'ei 'War Department to an ' unnamed foreigner for forty-thousand yen. The police statement indicates that Oyama was intimate' with a certain American, and"also "a certain, military attache. Other' arrests are. expected.