GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 156, 20 March 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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The late Queen Lena'of Montenegro will be buried at San Remo in the Russian Church ‘where King Nicholas lies.

Practically all the Labour members of tho House of Commons, except the Scottish, will attend the King’s afternoon reception.

The French Government has tabled a Bill proposing to lend Rumania 100,000,000 francs for the purchase of war materials from France.

Prince Napoleon has presented the French nation with the house in which Napoleon Bonaparte was bern at Ajaccio on August 15, 1769.

A hundred and fifty thousand guineas collected by London school children, has been handed over rto the Prince of Wales as nresident of King Edward’s Hospital Fund.

Sir James Allen. New Zealand High Commissioner, is visiting Rotterdaffi. and will inspect rthe Jorgens margarine factory, which is now using large quantities of Samoan material in margarine manufacture.

Senator Pearce has published statisti'js showing that since 1911 the Chinese in Australia decreased by '5098, the Japanese bv 655, and the Hindus by 164. Tho full-blooded non-European population is now 30,812.

Ten thousand farm labourers in Norfolk have struck. A conference of farmers and men hns been arranged. If it breaks down, the trouble is expected to spread to Essex and Cambridge. The real struggle concerns hours.

It is understood in London that Alcssrs. ’Vickers have received orders for the construction of twenty, new high-speed tanks at an approximate cost of £GOOO each, the speed to be 25 miles an hour, and ihe endurance 1000 miles.

In the House of Commons, Sir Robert Sanders. Minister of Agriculture, said that the Government would support- tho Merchandise Marks Bill. The greatest difficulty would be putting it into force with tho machinery laid doivn. The Bill passed its-- second reading with a majority of 183.

The decree nisi granted to John Hugo Russell, son of Lord Aippthill, doos’ not decide the question "of the succession to the title. The verdict means that the child is- not Russell’s, but further proceedings are necessary formally to declare the child’s legal status. An appeal has been lodged on behalf of Mrs Russell. The costs of the two trials aro approximately £25,000.