GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 183, 1 May 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

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All New York court records were broken on Saturday, when seventy-two criminals were sentenced at one sitting to terms totalling 458 years.

The death in Dublin is announced of Richard Croker, formerly a prominent / American politician, and for several years a Tammany Hall boss.

Lloyd’s agent at Constantinople reports that a shell fired from a coast battery near Odessa struck the British steamer Datchet, causing her to be beached. —Reuter.

George Towns, the ex-champion sculler, has arrived in London, accompanied by Bryan, the Queensland amateur champion, who will compete in the Diamond Sculls at Henley in July.

A London message says the Commonwealth Government line of steamers will call at Plymouth on the homeward voyages to land mails and passengers, commencing with the Hobsons Bay in June.

Doni Lorenzo I’erdsi, tho famous composer, who wrote “The Passion of Christ” and “The Resurrection of Lazarus,” is stated by a Rome message to have gone mad. He had been, distributing 5 and 100 lire notes in the streets of Rome. Ho had already given away 75,000 lire.

Telegrams from Natchez to New York report that a bad break occurred in tho Mississippi River levee at Ferriday,, Louisiana. The water is sweeping over milages and plantations, inundating large areas. Ten thousand people have abandoned their homes.

An Order-in-Council authorises the British Admiralty to place on the retired list, irrespective of age or service, such officers as are considered to bo unfit for further service, owing to peculiarity of temper or other defects, not amounting to misconduct or caused by intemperate habits.

The Sydney University has created a new post, that of “student advise*-,” and has appointed Brigadier-General Mackay to it. The object of the appointment is to acquaint each student personally of the mind of the University, acting as mentor on all matters pertaining to the University.

At Christie’s, London, in twenty minutes nine pictures realised 20,650 guineas. Two Reynolds’ portraits fetched 4800 and 4000 guineas respectively; Romney’s “Mrs. Greaves,” 2900 guineas ; Gainsborough’s “Mies Mott” and Raeburn’s “Fourteenth Earl Eglinton,” 2000 guineas each.

Tho United States Government has informed the Cuban Government that it must set its economic and financial house in order, or financial intervention by the United States must inevitably follow. The Cuban Minister M. Cespedes, declares that all that Cuba needs is a little more time and the faith find co-operation of its friends, in order to achieve the desired end.

Several thousand "women, including delegates from the Baltimore Convention of the National League of Women Voters and the Pan-American Women’s Convention staged a demonstration before Mr. Woodrow Wilson’s home. The former President, leaning heavily upon a. cane, appeared at the door and thanked the crowd, but regretted he was not strong enough to make a speech.

It is reported from London that Victor White, a journalist, son of the late James and Elizabeth White, of Melbourne, who were divorced in Australia thirty years ago, has inherited £BO,OOO under tho will of Harriet O’Brien, a half-sister of James White, who made money in a refreshment business up-country in Victoria. Mr. White saw a solicitor’s advertisement in , a London weekly paper by accident.

Hie “New York Word” states that fourteen of the largest independent steel companies in the United States, including the Midvale and Republic Iron and Steel Companies, will shortly form a combination with an aggregate capital of between 800 and 1000 million dollars. The corporation -will be second only to tho United States Steel Corporation. The movement, which is duo to the desire to reduce overhead costs and gain greater efficiency, was begun before tho war, but the large profits arising from the war held the matter in abeyance until the present loam years.