GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 121, 7 February 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

■Y TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. It is reported from Cape Town that Tom Alann is returning to England and not visiting Australia. Four deaths in New York are reported to be due to wood alcohol poisoning, and a fifth person is dying. The Italian banks have decided for the first time to adopt crossed cheques as a safeguard against falsification. A Reuter message from London, states that Mr. F. M. B. Fisher has accepted a mission To the West Indies to secure their larger participation iu the British Empire Exhibition. The death is announced from Tokio of Prince Fushima, undo of the Emperor Yosliikito, and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy. The Duke of York and his fiancee, Ladv Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon, have already received numerous presents. USMI.Y from people with whom they are not 'acquainted. The latter have been returned, in accordance with the invariable royal etiquette. Herr Licht, of Afagdeburg, states that the three months’ beet sugar production is 2,199,399 tons, nnd hs estimates the product of the campaign at 4,542,800 tons, giving a surplus of 555,000 tons over the 1921-22 campaign. The New South AVales coal industry is disturbed over the question of dispatching supplies to Victoria pending file settlement of the Wonthaggi dispute. The northern miners have carried resolutions of sympathy with tha Wonthaggi miners, and decided to refuse to cut coal if it. is intended for Victoria.