GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 58, 3 December 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association. COPYRIGHT. During the week ended December 1 the British Treasury received £2,784,000 in death duties from four estates. Fire in Low Leong and Company’s fturniture factory at Alexandria, New South Wales, caused damage estimated at £lO,OOO. A Chicago message states that Miss Irene Castles has married her third husband, Mr. Frederick McLaughlin, a coffee merchant. r Signor Mussolini received the Chief Rabbi in Rome, and assured him that tlie Fascist Government had never pursued, or even contemplated, an antiSemitic policy.

The Afghan Government has satisfied the demands of the British Government in respect of the Barshor and Spinchilla incidents in 1921, when small detachments of, British troops were waylaid and ambuscaded by Waziris as the result of Afghan activities. —Reuter.

Mr. P. G. Stewart, Federal Minister of Works, has announced that such progress has been made with the construction of the Parliamentary Buddings at Canberra that the next Camnet meeting will _be held there either before or after Christmas; and the next Federal Parliament will meet there.

The Loondon “Daily Chronicle’s” correspondent in Jersey reports, that the States (local Legislature’s rejected a proposal to contribute £325,000 annually to the British coffers, and also rejected! a proposal to pay pensions and other charges now borne by the British taxpayer.

Captain Foster, of the Trevessa, recalled at the’Board of Trade inquiry, stated that after mature consideration he believed the loss of the ship was probably due to the opening of seams owing to the bursting of rivets, which might have been caused through the vessel taking the mud at Port Pine.

The English Football Association is inviting outstanding players, more especially leading amateurs, to join the Soccer team which is to tour Australia next season. It is hoped that the composition of the team will be similar to that of the party which toured South Africa. It is certain to be a powerful combination.

The Returned Soldiers’ Association is requesting the Commonwealth Government to sink the Australia along the coast with a light attached to the vessel, so that she will act as a. safety beacon, an idea which is considered to be in keeping with the ship's achievements for Australia.

The High Court at Sydney has commenced the hearing of an appeal against the verdict in the case brought by Captain Spain against the Union Company. The appeal is made on various grounds, one of which is that the Judge was in error in finding that the stranding of the Karitane was due to Captain Spain’s personal carelessness and negligence.

Lecturing on evolution, Professor Sir Edgeworth David, of Sydney University, said th nt tho five hundred million rears which had elapsed since the Cambrain Period represented only about one-tenth of the time that life had existed on the earth. On the evolution hypothesis the beginning of life here went back to something like five billion years.

It is reported from Santa Cruz, California. that Robert Wilson Stevenson, cousin, of the late author, has been arrested and sent to gaol because he lacked bail on a charge that he entered the United States, at Boston in. 1922 from Scotland in violation of the immigration laws. He is 40 years of age and not married. He worked in Santa Cruz as a gardener. The Durban Labour organ, “The Guardian,” states that at the forthcoming annual conference of the South African Labour Party an invitation will bo submitted from the British Labour Party to a conference of members of Labour Parties throughout the Empire, to be held during the Empire Exhibition. The original idea of such a conference emanated from South Africa.

An imposing deputation of women piloted by a number of members oi Parliament flooded the office of the New South Wales Alinister of Justice, and demanded the wiping out of wine bars which they charged with responsibility for the degrading of many women and girls, and for other evils. The Alinister was sympathetic. In a cautious reply he said a. Bill now before Parliament would give the people the opportunity to secure the remedy asked for on a bare majority vote.