GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 134, 22 February 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

BY TELEGRAPH.—PBMB ASSOCIATION. ' —COPYRIGHT. The official estimate of the population of Australia at the end of September last is 5,599,716. The New South Wales Cabinet Jias decided to sell its stocks at the State timber yards in view of closing down the enterprise. Tlie estimated area under wheat throughout the Commonwealth for the year 1922-23 is 9,799,000 acres, and the total yield 108,811,000 bushels. Captain Ormsby-Gore (Under-Secre-tary at the Colonial Office) with a House of Commons delegation is to leave for Australia iicxt month to inv< stigate women’s immigration.

The Japanese Government formally stated that the Diet would not now take up the question of Japanese citizenship in America, but might do so later at a more opportune time

It is reported from Sydney that a man arrested in connection with the bank hold-up died shortly after being locked up. It is thought that he had taken poison prior to being arrested'.

The Commonwealth Bank announces' that a number of forged one pound notes are in circulation in Australia, the chief distinguishing mark _ being that they are numbered in blue in lieu of black.

Marienthal, a town near the railway line in the South-West Africa; Protectorate, has been practically wiped out by floods in the Fish River. No lives were lost, but the inhabitants are destitute.

Sir Alfred Yarrow, the shipbuilder, has given -.the Royal Society £lOO,OOO for scientific research, preferably, to be used to aid scientific workers by adequate payment and the supply, of apparatus rather than the erection of costly buildings.

Lord Desborough excavated a great mound at Taplow Hill and found re—mains of Ella King, of the South Saxons, who organised the invasion of Britain and relays of fighting men, who after the fall of London in the year 491 swept up the Thames Valley.

Messrs. Lawson and MacDougall inspected the Hobson Company’s experimental shipment of trays of Victorian soft fruit at Covent Garden. London. The peaches were fine fruit, all packed, with an excellent appearance, but the flavour was disappointing, apparently due to the cold. They will probably become wasty after a few days. The plums and apricots are unsatisfactory.

In connection with the suggested purchase of Captain. Cook’s journal for Australia, the president of thp Australian Historical Society states that the trustees of the Public Library have already sent the librarian to London to bid at the auction sale, and are appealing for subscriptions to augment the funds with which the librarian. is provided- He says that the price should not be looked at in the case of a treasure really priceless.

1116 Chicago “Tribune’s” Shanghai correspondent says that American, British, French, and Japanese admir-als-are conferring there with, a view to unification of policy respecting the protection of foreign shipping on the Upper Yangtse River against banditry, which for many months past have made trading along the stream extremely hazardous. The outlaws fired upon a number of ships, including British and American. The Chinese Government seems powerless to handle the situation.

Mr. J. W. Weeks, United States secretary of War, has announced the decision that a person born in Hawaii of Japanese parentage may attend the reserve of officers’ training camps, and eventually , become an officer of -the United States Army. The case arose in regard to a student of .Cornell Uni J versity. a Japanese, born in Hilo, who received reserve training, and will eventually become a regular officer. Members'of the reserve camps under the present law must be citizens of the United States, and generally children born in the United States are citizens.

Commissioner Lamb, of the. Salvation Army, read a paper on migration before a conference of Poor Law Guardians in London. He suggested that if trade unions prepared a considered settlement scheme they might reasonably expect the Overseas Settlement Committee to contribute a third of the cost, the Dominions another third, and Poor Law Guardians the remainderRestrictions on immigration should run parallel with the British exodus to the Dominions. It would be supreme follv if, while Britons were pouring out of the west and south, alien, races, upon whom nothing liko the social ana. economic laws were operating, were permitted to crowd the eastern shores.