GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 288, 22 August 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

BY tbleobaph.-Phess association. -OOPYEIOHT. Czecho-Sloviakia has signed a commercial treaty wita France. The French Foreign Office announces that France has decided to recognise the King of Greece. . The Premier of Queensland, Mr. Theodore, is to visit London at the end ot the year in connection with a loan. The Federal House of Representatives passed a motion of sympathy in regard to the death of Senator Bakhap. Further heavy rain has fallen in the coastal districts of New South Wales during the past few days, and continues. The Angora correspondent of the French paper “L’lntransigeant” says the Turkish Government has called to the colours the 1896 to 1902 classes. Mrs. Kyle, of Petersham, Sydney, while washing her baby, swooned. The baby fell into the basin, and when the mother recovered the baby was drowned. Tile production of Griffiths’s film, “The Birth of a Nation,” has been forbidden in France on the ground that it might cause public disorder. The embargo is the result of the colour question. The French rights in the picture cost £20,000. Miss Zetta Hills, who nearly succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a water motor-cycle in 1920, attempted to swim from Folkestone to the French coast, but abandoned the effort after covering eight miles, owing to the wind and sea. Mr. Austin Chapman, Federal Minister of Customs, has announced that the Australian stall will be furnished with Australian products at the. exhibition to be conducted b” British women at Shanghai on October 19. It is expected to display effectively goods produced in the Commonwealth. A general strike has been proclaimed in Greece. As the Government considers the strike to be of a political character, is has created a special court-marital before which the leaders will be summoned. It has also ordered the arrest of Benaroya, a Jewish Communist, who engineered the strike. Three hundred villagers m the provinca of Salamanca climbed the roof of a church to witness a privately-organ-ised bull fight. The structure collapsed, and all were buried beneath the debris. Four are dead, ten are reported to be dying, thirty have broken legs and arms, and fifty-three are less seriously injured.

The Federal House of Representatives passed a Bill introduced to validate certain wool-top agreements made during the war. Three specific contracts made with the Colonial Spinning and Weaving Company, which were recently the subject matter of High Court litigation, were exempted from the Bill.

A mass meeting of claimants to the Faznkerley millions is being held at Preston on October 25. The estate was left by Nicholas Fazakerley M.P. for Preston, who died intestate in the eighteenth century, leaving no direct heir. It is now reported to be worth many millions.* It is understood that there are claimants from America, Australia, and New Zealand.

Otto Henry Meithke, a New Zealand athlete, who has a suit for divorce against his wife, applied to the Court at Svdney for a substituted order of petition, as the wife’s whereabouts are unknown. He states that they were married in Wellington in 1904, and came to Sydney, where his wife left him. and so did £1950 he had put in a safe, also a watch and chain, and twenty medals he had won.