GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 59, 4 December 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association.

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A message from San Antonio, Texas, .States that Martha Mansfield, the ■kinenia star, died from burns, due to her dress becoming ignited.

Tho meat trade trouble in Adelaide has not been settled, and the citv is practically without fresh meat. Canned mleat’s and fish are in abnormal demand.

William Whvley, charged at the Sydney Supreme Court with wounding Mrs. Simpson, at Manly, with intent to murder her, pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sentence.

A number of Melbourne unionists marched to the Yarra Bank and passed a, resolution of protest against the dismissals of the striking police, urging the Government to reinstate the strikers.

Because Signor Nitti, formerly Premier of Italy. contributed an article to the American Press which is considered anti-ltalian. Fascisti raided bis house. Signor Nitti escaped, but the house was ransacked.

Maior H. C. Finnis. a political officer. while motoring near the Manikhwa. Baluchistan. was fired on and killed bv a gang of Waziris. The driver and a member of the escort were fatally wounded. —Iteuter.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed decrees bringing into force the preliminary agreement signed in 1921 between Italy and Russia, and between Italy and Ukrainia. a Reuter message from Romo states.’

Dr. James McDougall, whose workshops it Pittsburg are famous tor manufacturing the largest astronomical lenses made in the world, committed suicide bv poison owing to worry over the delayed completion of a 36inch lens.

The King of Snain. speaking at Barcelona to the officers of the garrison, stated that “whatever happens, the army, the people. and mvself must continue united, because the future of Spain is at stake, and wb must be victorious.” —Reuter.

The will of the late James Smith a former director of the Imperial Tobacco Company, has been proved, at £966 452. The probate duties amount to £271.838. Mr. Smith was the seventh director to die in recent years, and their combined estates have been proved at £18.112.951.

Mr. Larkin, managing director of thb Commonwealth Line. has announced that in consequence of the high wages and manning conditions, compared with the cost of crews on vessels in the trade registered outside Australia, the Commonwealth Line may be compelled to discontinue its Java service.

Over one hundred bodies of German soldiers wore found in a tunnel dug during thb battle of Verdun. The tunnel. which contains a complete plant for manufacturing mineral water such ns was supplied to the German troops extends from the Mort Homme HUI tn Be.t.henconri. village. The theory is that the Germans were surprised l and suffocated in a gas. attack. Svdnev bikers at a mass meeting rteeolved to inform the employers that t.hev will refuse to commence work before 6 o’clock in the mornings, notwithstanding anv award made by the Arbitration Court: and thtev further warned the employers that the responsibility will be theirs in the event of industrial conflict following any aDolication to the Court for variation of the award.

The Australian navigation authorities announce that, the permission which has been givten for the Moeraki to carrv interstate passengers from Melbourne to Hobart is not to be regained as a precedent. It is given simply because the owners have intimated that it is necessary to send the vessel to Hobart on her wav to New Zealand. and there is no .other licensed passenger steamer going from Melbourne to Hobart.

A Swaraj Party, consisting of non-co-operators who believe in entering the Legislature in order to obstruct the Gcivemment, has achieved a number of notable successes in the elections for the Bengal Council, according .to a Delhi message. The veteran Minister. Sir Surnedra Nath Baneriea, was defeated by a comparatively unknown Swarajist. Dr. Ray. in.the Barrackpore Division, by a majority of over 3000 votes. So far 30 Swarajists have been elected a.nd- 13 defeated. It. is doubtful if they will command an independent majority.

Henrv Pnrkiss and his wife, both members of the Sect known: as .“the Peculiar Peonle.” have been committed for trial in London on a charge of the man si an i'll ter of their three-year-old son, by neglecting to provide proper medical aid. It was stated that the child died from laryngeal diphtheria, and that if antitoxin had been administered his life would have been saved. The parents, who stated that they had not secured a doctor because it was against their faith, called in two elders of the sect to lay hands on and to anoint and prav for the child.

Klemens Andrisko. discovering that his wife was unfaithful, and l was visiting her. lover daily, constructed a bomb which he connected with an electric control, a Budapest message states. He placed the bomb under a sofa on which his wife and her lover always sat, and then secreted himself to watch. Tho couple entered and sat on the sofa, whereupon the hu*bard set the mechanism of the bomb in motion. The man, hearing . a movement, jumped out of the window before tho explosion; but .the wife and husband were blown to bits. Villagers attempted to lynch the lover, who was imprisoned bv tho police for safety.