GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 53, 25 November 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BY TELEGBA.PH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. The death of Baron Sonnino, who was twice Premier of Italy, is announced from Rome. All the persons kidnapped in the Mabsud raid have been released, and have returned safely, a Delhi message states. At the trial at Melbourne of Reuben Fox, charged with the murder of Mrs. McLaughlin, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Twenty people were crushed to death through the collapse of a large house near Naples. Four families .were buried in the ruins. A convention at St. Louis of an association formed to oppose prohibition decided to contest the Presidency ia 1924 on a “wet” platform. Owing to the seamen’s strike, 2000 Sjdnev wharf labourers have been rendered idle', and they have decided to ask the Government for relief. A Peking message states that China and Japan have reached an agreement under which the control of Shangtung Peninsula is resumed by China. The largest electricity sub-station in the Southern Hemisphere has been opeped adjacent to the Electrolytic Zinc Works at Risdon, Tasmania. I \ The British „ Primp Minister, Mr. Bonar Law. has agreed to. receive a deputation from the Miners’ Federation to discuss proposed Government aid to industry. In consequence of the disqualification of SiM, the French Boxing Federation is organising a competition for the title of ligM heavy-weight champion of France. —Reuter. Count Zborowski, driving an eightcylinder Ballot motor-par at Brooklauds, covered ten miles in smin. 111 sec He attained 120 miles an hour for a half-mile, and broke the kilometre, half-mile, one, two, and fiveniile records. The Cologne correspondent of the Txmdon “Times” states that two arti-. ficial earthquakes were to be produced in Heidelstein and Rhone Mountains yesterday and to-day by the Gottingen University. Hu-te quantities of explosives will bo fired, and Seismographic Institutes will record the movements of the sound waves. Bywaters, a ship’s steward, and Mrs. Percy Thompson, charged with conspiracy to murder the latter’s husband, have been committed for trial at Ilford. The Home Office analyst testified that he found trace? of alkaloid in the murdered man’s organs, which gave the reactions of poison. No other poisonous subst'’! I ''" was fl elected