GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 242, 8 July 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BY TELISGEAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYEIGHT. Major Blake left Athens for Egypt on Thursday, in continuation of his flight round the world. The debate on Mb. Dooley’s motion of censure in the New South Wales House of Representatives has been adjourned till Tuesday. The Government of New South Wales is contemplating a scheme of motor train services for the non-pay-* ing country branch . lines. The first motor locomotive will be ready in a few weeks. It is understood that twenty lines' will be served. The Federal Country Party has decided to urge an increase of the membership of the House of Representatives te 76, with the object of saving Victoria tho loss of a seat. The move is tho outcome of the last Census,' which, on a population basis, gives Now South Wales an additional seat. JVIr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Premier, has arranged a meeting with Mr. Hughes, American Secretary of Rate, for July 7, at which it is understood matters to be discussed will bo tho proposed St. Lawrence waterway, tariff reciprocity, Customs questions, and border prohibition enforcement.

A hundred people were overcome by panic and many trampled on in a New York subway, as the result of the "blowing” of a fuse, which set fine to a train. Hundreds of pasongers broke the windows, leaped on to the tunnel tracks, and fought their way through the blinding smoke to the emergency exits. I x

At Montreal, the brother-in-law of Fatbpr Delormes, who was , charged with murdering his half-brotLer, asked the Court to interdict the priest in or-det to prohibit him exercising any' of his civil privileges relating to property. He further asked for a family council, at which steps could be taken for the management of the Delormes estate.

It is stated that the minimum wage is enforceable only for those working under awards, a Sydney message states. In 1920 regulations were gazetted compelling £4 ss. to be paid to all adult employees. AT reduction is now obtainable by employers on making application to the Arbitration Court, which will deal uith unions, not individuals.

Mr. A. S. Rodgers, Federal Miiaster of Customs, replying to a deputation from the Housewives’ Association Ift regard to the price of sugar, said the balance-sheet regarding the sugar position would be presented next week. Ho definitely promised a reduction in the price, but what the amount would be or at what date the reduction would be’made, he was unable to say-

Colonel Creswell, former leader of the Labour Party in tho South African House of Assembly, was returned with 'a majority of 13, at the byelection for Stamford Hill, Durban. His election^increases the strength or the party to 13 and reduces the Government majority to 13. It is expected that Colonel Creswell will resume the leadership of the party, hitherto held by Mr. Boydell.

Mr Armstrong has returned to London from Lancashire with samples of sheeting manufactured from Australian cotton. Experts have furnished a report on tho,material, stating that nothing better can be produced, while spinners say that the cotton runs excellently. Six hundred bales of last year’s Queensland crop have been purchased by Lancashire buyers .at 270 points advance of American quotations.

The House of Commons passed the second reading of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Bill, under which a British child born abroad becomes a British subject provided ’ts birth baa been registered at a British /consulate and the child duly declared its nationality on attainment of its majority. Mr. Shortt Homo Secretary, stated that tho Dominions hnd assented to the Bill and would introduce the requisite legislation.