GENERAL CABLED

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 255, 22 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLED

Br Telegraph-Press Aesociatlon-OopyrllM E. L. Anperly won the amatour golf j championship of Australia, beating T. j B. Howard, four up and three to play. f A Sydney message states that Mr. 1 George Fulton, of Christclmrch, 1lo? purchased the imported stallion Grcyspear - at a high figure. ' Fifty British Press delegates, with j others from India, Australia, South , Africa, and New Zealand, will sail ficun j London by the Victorian for Nova Scotia. The King and Queen and many other i royalties attended the Empress Eugenie's : funeral at Farnboroiigh. Prince Mctor ■; Napoleon and Princess Clementine Mere tho principal mourners. ; The Federal Liquor Trades Defence 'j Union is contributing .£IO,OOO to the ; Oueensland liquor organisations to help j tho campaign again&t prohibition. The 1 ; vote will be taken in October. 1 The Sydney Harbour Trust is launch- i ing an ambitious scheme to provide ad- j ditional berthing accommodation for 54 \ deep-sea, 31 inter-State, and 42 coastal vessels, a total of twelve miles of wharf- ; «ge. j A Router message slates that 'n the House of Cemmons Mt. Bonar Law said i it was the policy of tho Govern oiuit to ; hand book tho railways, to. tho com- ; panics at the expiration of the present agreement. j The Broken Hill miners, by 2000 votel ■ to 100, agreed to accept the decision of , a conferenco of five representatives 'Of ,j each side, with an independent chairman. i Work at the mines will not proceed until a final agreement is arrived at. ■' Mr, J. J. G. M'Girr, Minister of Health : •for New South Wales, reiterating his J opposition to tho State lottery scheme, said the experience of Italy ajid other 1 countries was that they had a demoral- , ising effect on the community. ■ In the House of Assembly, General Smuts stated that South Africa had paid Count Danger 150,000 francs for j the Delville Wood site, where a monu- • ment is to bo erected to commemorate the heroio stand of the South Africans. ;

While the Aquitania. was effi the Irish coast, on the way to America, the stop- ; valve of one of her boilers "blew off. j An engineer wa6 killed and a 6tok«liold j hand was injured. Tho liner reduccd I her speed while repairs were made, and • then continued her voyage. * The Chicago Eailway Labour Board j has awarded to two million organised employees an average increase of 21 per \ cent, in wages, retrospective to May 1. ! The employees demanded a 35 per cent. ! increase. The increases are expected to total approximately 500,000,000 dollars. ' Mr. Andrew Fisher, Australian High' . j Commissioner, welcomed the Oiympio j team, in London, and presented Bennett ; with an Australian ensign, and wished the team success in their enterprise. Bennett thanked Mr. Fisher, and said everj r roan in the team was a champion, imbuod with tho desire to uphold Aim- i tmlia at Antwerp. The Australian Premiers' Conferenco has concluded. It agreed that tho Com- i monwedlth should take over tho offices • and organisation of tho States in London as far as they affect immigration. It ■; also agreed upon a uniform. system of tax-gathering, but disagreed as to ' whether it should' be executed by the ; States or by the Commonwealth. ' A disastrous explosiorf occurred at S German munition depot on the ■ Soar, resulting in the ignition of aerial bombs. Three hundred wooden build- ' , ings were destroyed, And tho villagers of the neighbourhood are fleeing in papic, for fear tho fire* will extend to a, pa? j shell dump. French troops are assisting , the civilian evacuation of the district. j