GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 228, 21 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

■By Telegraph-Press Aesoelatlon-OopyrlpM A Baden newspapers state 9 that th* condition of.tbe ex-Kaiser Is critical.

• The Belgian Chamber has decided tp admit women members to the Chamber ana Senate.

Rebels in Southern China attacked the American-Mission at Yoochow, and murdered a missionary.

A South African Government proclamation prohibits thp exportation of coal and foodstuffs except by official permit EJOD. ' ■ ■

Mr. E. M. Cherry, of Scotch College, Melbourne, is included in the six Wranglers of tho Mathematical Tripos, at Cambridge,

Sir Hamilton has sent an. autographed copy of hit; Gallipoli> diary to thi Mitchell Library, Sydney, and' donated also a sheaf of pages of the original manuscript..

A further increase haa beqn madp in tbe fares from Sydpey +o London by the ■Royal Mail stealers. First salgon fares are now ,£l3O to =6170, and second 6aloon ,£•OS to .8120.

In view of the wireless operators' strike, tho British Board of Trade is permitting vessels to sail without them on condition that intending passengers are notified that operators' are not'carried aboard.

The Melbourne Licensing Board will cancel the licenses of twenty-seven additicnal city and suburban hotels at the end' of the current year, on the groupd that they promo insufficient bed and meal accommodation..

Accgrding to a Reuter message from PariH, a newspaper correspondent at Naples says that Gefteral Pepino Garibaldi is preparing a coup in Montenegro similar to D'Annunzio's at Fiume. A move is expected in ft few days.

• The Portsmouth Corporation is promoting a scheme to develop Langston Harbour into a mercantile port, and hopes to obtain the co-operation and financial support of the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian Governments. The estimated cost is ,£12,1)00,000.

A strong movement is afoot among Federal members to utilise the Prince's visit to Canberra' to-day to lay the founda-tion-stone of Federal l'arlianjeht House, to force the Government's hands aver ita inaction in transferring the seat of the Federal Parliament from Melbourne- to Canberra. A' large section of members is Testive over thie shelving of'the transfer, and they waited on Mr. W. M. Hughes, who explained that the money question was the cause of delay. The Government was committed to Canberra ijjy- the pre-election policy speech.