GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 133, 21 February 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

BY TIIJIOBAI’H.—TABS* ACOOCIATIOO. —COFYBIGHT.

The New South Waites Cabinet ha« decided to close the State timber yards.

Prince Nicholas of Rumania is joining the British Navy as a midshipman, with a view to later taking over command of the Rumanian naval and aerial) forces.

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that Hindus are ineligible for American citizenship, not being white within tho meaning of the Naturalisation Act.

The Duke of Westminster’s daughter, Lady Ursula, is engaged to Mr. Jack Anthony, the gontlemyi rider who rode the winners of the Grand National in 1911, 1915, and 1920.

An aggregate meeting of Newcastle (New South Wales) miners’ lodges • resolved that every effort should be made to establish a weekly wages system, such being the only permanent solution of the intermittancy of work in the coal-mining industry.

Ernest Dudet, former editor of “L’Eclair,” who, while living in Switzerland, was sentenced to imprisonment for life for alleged treasonable relations with the enemy in wartime, returned to France to face his trial, and was arrested when he crossed the frontier.

Professor Hugh Candy, for a few pounds, bought at a second-hand Looff’stall in London a sixteenth century copy of Ovid, and found that it contained whait .authorities agro© is |* manuscript of 170 unpublished stanzas by Milton, believed to have been written in his boyhood.

Mr. J. B. Cramsie, chairman of the Australian Meat Council, complain* that, whilst freights and other cargoea have been reduced by the conference line, meat freights are not reduced. He fears that Australia’s export meat trade will suffer in consequence, and the Argentine markets which cannot be regained.

Tlie New South Wales Government has established a psychiatry clinic, th* first of its kind, for tho purpose of providing medical skill for person* suffering from early symptoms of mental, functional, and nervous diseases. It is also hoped to educate the medical profession to the essential features of mental diseases and bridge tho gap existing between psychiatry and general medicine.