GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 154, 17 March 1923, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph.—Press association. —Copyright. Britain has made the first payment to tho United States under the Debt Settlement, paying a sum slightly in excess of 4,000,000 dollars. French direct taxation land Stato monopolies yielded 1,128,000,000 francs in February, making a surplus over the estimate for the first two months of the year of 124,000,000 francs. Tho charges against Ernest Judet, Former editor of the French paper “L’Eclair,” include giving information to the Gormans regarding .spots where Zeppelins l dropped bombs in London. Experiments in defrosting Australian meat by the Cooper-Rayson process have commenced in London. Specimen portions of beef before and after , defrosting are being sent to Cambridge University for biological examination. A bulletin issued in Paris in the case of tho Earl of Crewe, British Ambassador, who is suffering from pneumonia an<J influenza, states that his temperature is normal, and the condition of the heart noticeably improved. The patient is still weak, but the prognosis is moie favourable. The Sydney Sulphide Corporation has decided to establish cement works at Cockle Creek, and is proceeding immediately with the construction ol tho first unit, which will be capable of a pi eduction of 80,009 tons a year. It will probably be duplicated later. Tho Crown Agent for the Colonies has purchased Captain Scott’s Antarctic vessel the Discovery, which is to be utilised by the Colonial Office in an expedition to study the habits of whales in tho vicinity of Falkland Islands. The vessel is being refitted and will start towaids the end of tho year. ' Tho Conference of Ambassadors at Paris has reached a decision on the Polish frontiers. It is understood that those fixed in accordance with tho treaty signed at Riga between Russia and Poland will be maintained, while those provisionally established between Poland and Lithuania will be almost completely maintained, the town of Vilna. remaining with Poland.

As the outcome of a conference of the Initor-Allied Reparation Commission with the Bulgarian Government, Bulgaria’s obligations under the Peace TT-eaty have been reduced from milliards of francs to 55 million gold francs payable in easy instalments, with arrangements and guarantees satisfactorily settled. The agreement is subject to tho Allied Governments’ approval.—Reuter.

At Merrouge, the ground jury which heard the evidence at the hearings of the Watb and Daniels murders, declared tiiat the evidence did not warrant the indictments of any individuals. The State attorneys expressed surprise, and declared that they would proceed along several other courses open to them, to obtain indictments, such as filing bills of information againsit persons suspected of this crime, or calling a new grand Captain Crawford, Superintendent of Garden Island paid an official call on the Chatham at Sydney. The officers of the latter will be entertained by the State Ministry on Tuesday. The men were given a picnic at National Park. Commander Hotham said that the visit was a step in the co-ordina-tion of the defences of the Empire. It was a- unique event, which he hoped would be the forerunner of further visits.

The Now South Wales Parliamentary Labour Party has split over the DoolevMcGirr dispute. A meeting of the Caucus discussed the motion whether Mr. Dooley was eligible at present in view of his expulsion. The motion was affirmed by 16 votes to 13. whereupon Mr. McGirr, with nine followers, left the meeting. The Caucus, by 23. votes to 1. protested against the action of the executive in appointing the leader of tho party.

A Winnipeg' telegram states. that the Grand Orange Lodge of Manitoba, at the fifty-first annual session, adopted a resolution setting forth that King George was being ill-advised ,if he seriously considered calling on Pope Pius during his proposed trip to Italy. The resolution stated that under the Bill of Rights our Crown is banned from holding communion with the Seo or tho Church of Rome, and these are not days in which constitutional safeguards ought to be flouted. The resolution further requests the British mission to the Vatican to be withdrawn.