GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Br Telegraph—Press Association

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The Sir Walter David Memorial Committee Yvill erect a Celtic cross, made of Australian stone, on the late Governor’s grave.

Mr. Hughes. Syduey, manager of the Union Company, declined te speak in reference to the Patrick Steamship Company’s reduction of freights to Tasmania and Australian ports.

A man named John Kettle met his death in a peculiar manner. While engaged in n race Yvith tivo others at Murwillumbah. New South Wales, the horse ho Yvas riding crashed into a tree, and Kettle’s skull and the upper part of his body were smashed

Mr. Justice Draper has resigned the Presidency of the West Australian Arbitration Court. Labour organisations recently criticised him for increasing the hours of Government workers from 44 to 48 per week, and were completing petitions seeking his removal.

ff’ho Federal Cabinet will meet in Sydney on Thursday, and will probably decide tho fate of the battleship-cruiser Australia. It is believed that_ the vessel will be sunk outside the Heads, if possible during the visit of the British Squadron.

Owing to scarcity, the price of sugar is advancing daily, a Ixmdon message states. It rose a shilling a hundredweight on Monday, making an advance of between £5 and £6 per ten in the last few weeks. A reduction is not expected until the Cuban crop arrives in February.

The “Morning Post’s” special correspondent at Luxor says Air. Carter has found a bouquet of flowers against the back of the outer shrine, intertwined into what must have been a very beautiful Yvreath. An official message states that the first Press visit to tho tomb will be on December 4.