GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 53, 27 November 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By TEi.Ec.nArn— Press Association. —Copyright. Mrs. Negozio is appealing against the verdict in the divorce case. Two more northern New South. Wales collieries have been rendered idle as the result of strikes. The death is reported in Sydney of Air. Arthur Kidman, the pioneer exporter of frozen lamb and mutton. At Adelaide. Agnes Miles, aged 61. claimed £lOOO damages for breach ot promise from Henry Patterson, aged 70. The jury awarded her £3OO. An unusual theft is reported from Carlingford, New South Wales, where Senator Cox laid the foundation stone on Saturday for a war memorial. the stone, notwithstanding the inscription it bore, was stolen during tho night. The Irish Minister of Finance has announced the terms of a new Free State loan of £10,000.000 at 5 per cent, at 95. The loan is redeemable in 1935-45. No income tax will be deducted at the source of the interest. A full meeting of the London County Council reiected a committee’s, proposal that liquor should be sold in. the bars, but not in the auditorium in a number of music halls, and decided by 44 votes to 32 that no liquor should be sold or consumed on the premises.— Svdnev “Sun” Cable. A fire at Tia Juana, a famous racing resort just over the Mexican border, destroyed a warehouse containing liquor worth £20.000. twenty-five saloons, and manv houses, according to a New Aork message to the Svdnev “Sun.” The total loss is over a million dollars. Thirty people wore iniured and scores of houses were damaged.

Mr. S. M. Bruce. Australian Prime Minister has accented the office ot patron of the British Empire Prodiieers’ Organisation. The Karl of Giascow has been elected president; Air. A. R. Hassan, representing the Australian Meat Council, and Air. Forsvth representing the New Zealand Meat Board, have been elected members of the council.

The London “Daily Chronicle s Marseilles correspondent says Guiseppe Pace, a Maltese, is tho cnlv one out of at least a dozen stowawavs who survived the fire and expolsions on board the steamer Otterburn. He admits that matches were struck in the aftcrhold whore the stowaways hxl. Apart from the stowaways seven members of the crew perished.

The Geneva correspondent of the London “Dailv Express” states that a Swiss circus proprietor, in response to an advertisement for three bundled .acrobats for a long tour c.- South America, received sixty thousand applications from all parts of Europe, chieflv Germany. Austria and Russia. Among the applicants were a baron, bareness, generals. colonels, counts, countesses, and professors, and some of tho letters were most pathetic.

Several Melbourne unions are contemplating taking action to insist on the reinstatement of the police strikers A ronunittee representing the unions decided upon a campaign to fire the public imagination, and lias airanged for a march of all unions to the Ynrra bank next Sunday a _ Statewide petition requesting the reinstatement of the men and a mass march of citizens to the Legislative Assembly.

A serious rupture is theatened between tho West Australian Country Partv and the countrv organisation, through tho party refusing to he dictated to. The country organisation contends that members of the party, when coalescing with the Govcrnmon showed that they were not singleminded. and accordingly it has refused to endorse the candidature of Air. B. S Sampson, the Colonial Secretaiy. nt the next elections. The other country members derided to make common cause with Mr. Sampson.