GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 54, 27 November 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

« BY TELEGBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGHT. Dame Melba has cancelled hpr tour oSlreland owing to the disturbed state of the country. The women suffragist leaders in France are advocating that the women should refuse to pay taxes until they receive votes. ' The bush fires in the western districts of Ne.v South "Wales have caused heavy damage. They are now threatening the State forests. Mr. Lloyd ..George has contracted to write a series of articles on international affairs for the United Press of America, commencing early in December. A mass meeting of iron trade employees in Sydney reaffirmed tlie previous decisions to continue the struggle against the reintroduction of the 48-hours week. - ■ In the French Senate the Army Commission decided by 16 votes to 15 in favour of fixing the period cf military service at 18 months instead of two years as hitherto.—Reuter. A lioness- which was, recently taken io Australia from New Zealand, and was being exhibited at a sideshow at the Lismore show grounds, attacked her tamer, Captain Lindo, and badlv bit his arm and mauled him before he escaped. -Advices from Broken Hill state that there is a merger movement ar ongf the Barrier mining companies for purely Australian interests to take oi er the whole of the assets and litbilities of ths British company *t 355. per share. The United States Attorney-General has started a legal action to recover over twenty million dollars alleged to have been obtained fraudulently frcin the Government in connection vith the construction of four army <. .ntonmintp during the war. The suits are the first of a number against war cuntrictors. Colonel W. E. Guinness. Undersecretary for War, announced in the House of Commons that rhe War Office had decided to pay Uis. ui the C in addition to the assets vo the cliefits of McGrigor’s Bank. The V. ar Office does not recognise anv legal liability, and the payment is to bo made ex gratia. An official table of the growth of (he various religions in New Sooth Walps in ten years, from 191 J. to 1921. stiow% that members of Christian sects increased bv 448,808. of which tie Church of England is credited with 29,330. and Roman Catholics 107,184. Non-Christian sects increased m nu inbership by 1849. A strange discovert at sea is reported at Delhi. Tho battleship Vindictive, when thirty hours out from Aden, met two canoes full of men, apparently savages. Where they came from or why they were so far from land was not ascertainable. The Vindictive supplied them with water, after which uhe savages insisted on'going their own way. St. Boniface’s College, at Winnipeg, the oldest educational institution ip the Canadian North-West, was destrovod bv .a disastrous fire, resulting in the death of eight students and injury to twenty others. Two hundred persons were asleep in the building when tho fire broke outa and many lumped from the windowS) The famous Jesuit library also was destroyed. Sir Joseph Cook, speaking nt a banquet given by tbo British Motor C v< lc Manufacturers’ Association in connection with the Olympia Show, punted out that Australia was the largest purchaser of British goods, lie 'Ugfested that British manufacturers sinpi Id cultivate Empire trade rather \han Ihe trade of foreign countries. ','’ I,ere )s money in the Empire,’ he ad ieu. ' Lord Balfour, delivering the Gifford lectures at Glasgow University, discussed the question of design m the universe. It was follv to suppose that mere blind force could account for all the true y>n P s of life, intellectual and scientific, he declared. If we had to choose between blind chance and guidance, we must choose the idea fhai guidance was behind the phenomena of the universe. In the Tasmanian Legislative. Assembly the Premier, during the debate on the second reading of the Public Expenditure Adjustment Bill, said the Government considered it was fair to ask tho Civil servants to forgo 6 per cent, of their salaries m order to square the State balance-sheet. Tlie cost of living had fallen more than 6 per epnt. since the Civil servants got their last rise. Ho added that Queensland and New Zealand had already imposed reductions.