GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 247, 13 July 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Preee Association— Copyright

Mr. John M'Whae, a Legislative Councillor. has been appointed Agent-General for Victoria, and is expected to take up his duties in February.

Mr. Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, said that the action of France in withdrawing from the Leipzig trials had been taken without consulting Britain.

Three girls and a boy, whose ages ranged from three to six years, were burned to death at the Renmark Hospital. South Australia. Tho children occupied a tout, which was set on firo by a candle left burning during the nurse's absence.

Guest. Keen, and Nettlcfold, Ltd., Birmingham, have secured a contract to supply the Indian Railways with 13,500 tons of steel rails at <£lo 2s. 6d. per ton, which is 15 per cent, below the Belgian nnd 3i per cent, above the German, quotations. A Sydney message states that, in view of some meetings of miners criticising the Coal. Tribunal’s activities and suggesting direct action, Mr. Hobble, chairman of the Coal Tribunal, lias declared that the position is intolerable, and has refused to continue unless some assurance is given that better counsels will prevail. A Reuter message from London states that the British representative at stantinople informed Mustapha Kemal that in view of the absurd conditions laid down bv ihe Nationalists it was impossible for’ General Harrington to proceed further in regard io the suggested meeting with Kemal. Plans are in preparation by shipowners to eliminate overlapping by pooling refrigerated cargo and loading one vessel to its full capacity, instead of distributing it among several, a message from Sydney states. It is also proposed that instead of several vessels calling at various Australian ports for small parcels, one vessel will pick up the lot. A. flock of four thousand sheep was marooned on a ridge of dry ground bj the floods in New South Wales, and was threatened with starvation, fill tho services of Captain Love, an airman, were requisitioned. The airman will load his machine with corn, and convey three bags an hour to the cheep. The ridge embraces five acres, and the jjrass nas been eaten bare for weeks. AA ater extends for 150 miles on all sides.