STRIKE ENDED

Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 7

STRIKE ENDED

DOCKERS DECIDE TO RESUME By Telegraph.— Press Association. —Copyright. London, August 19. The dock strike is ended. Meetings of strikers decided to resume work on Tuesday. Reuter. GENERAL CABLES 4 BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. The wholesale .price of butter has been reduced in Brisbane from 2~45. to 1965. per cwt. The Home Bank of Canada, at Toronto with deposits totalling twentyone million dollars, has suspended payment. z An aeroplane crashed through the roof and two stories of a house in Madrid, killing two women and a clnia. The pilot escaped uninjured. As a tribute to the memory of the late Senator Bakhap, the Federal House of Representatives adjourned yesterday until the evening. Mr. W. S. Brown, engineer for the Commonwealth Railways. said that railway costs would keep up at Darwin as Jong; as all work was paid for by the Government. A grain mill, the property of the South Australian Milling and Trading Company at Port Adelaide, has been destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to £lO,OOO. The “Daily Mail” states that the Prince of Wales will sail on September 5 for Canada, incognito probably as the Duke of Cornwall. He will return at the end of October. A joint meeting of the English Transport Workers’ Union and the National Union of Railwaymen approved of the alliances of rail and roadworkers recently announced as probable. I.owl Birkenhead, who, since the rising of the Imperial Parliament, has bben writing prominently against tho Government imlicy, has gone to America and Canada, where he will lecture. Tho death of Lord Sterndale is announced from London. I, ord Stterndale had been successively Recorder of Oldham and Liverpool, a Judge of the King’s Bench, a Lord Justice of Appeal and Master of the Rolls. A proposal to stabilise the Oueen.slaiid meat inC'istry bv co-onerating in the marketing of cattle has boon temporarily deferred until the industry ascertains tlje legality of the position. The Angora Assembly proposes to modify the prohilrtion which has operated for three years in Anatolia, on the ground that ,it has not stopped drinking, and has caused a heavy loss in revenue, according to a Constantinople message. Tlie taxation on alcohol will be increased, and severer penalties for drunkenness imposed.

It is reported from Rome that the Trish Rennhlirans have appealed to the Popo on hehnlf of de Valova, and that Cardinal Gasparri has replied that tho Vatican is powerless to intervene officially, but the Pope is anxious for a srtz'odv re-establishment of neace in Ireland, and hones, that do Valera will receive an impartial trial.

The Cliinesfi Government has advised its Legations throughout the world that beginning on Fbptember 12, all German issues of Chinese Government obligations will lie regarded, as invalid. The bonds thus involved include tho the Anglo-German loans of 1896 and 1898, the reorganisation loan of 1913, and the Tientsin, Pukow, and Hukwang railways loans.

Following the decision of the league of Nations to deal with the question of slavery at its next meeting, the AntiSlavery and Aborigines Protection Society has prepared a memorandum stating that slavery, involving over a million persons prevails in Ah.vssima and in the mandated territories or South-West Africa and Tanganyika.

Mr. Millard, organiser of the Chinese Soccer team, commenting in Sydney on the action of the Commonwealth in abolishing tho Trade Commissioner’s Office at Shanghai, said the office had been achieving little good because it relied too much on the distributions of leaflets and pamphlets tn describing Australian goods, instead of following the Canadian example .of erecting stalls to display the exhibits, as is done at show time. He contended that if New Zealand and Australia co-operated to arrange exhibitions of their primary products, they con'd mu'tiply their existing trade ten times. He was greatly struck hy the popular notion in China that New Zealand was part of tho mainland of Australia.