GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 96, 18 January 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

4 By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyrisht. A proposal has been submitted to shareholders that tho business of | Mackie and Company, whisky distillers, be sold to the present shareholders for £1,300,000, the shareholders to form a new company, to be known as" the White Horse Distilleries, Limited. The ( new company will take over the present stocks of whisky, valued at £3,000,000, for £1,500,000. Six firms have submitted twenty tenders for the proposed bridge over Sydney Harbour. Eleven designs are of the cantilever type, seven of the arch tvpe, and two of the inverted arch type. Mr. R. Ball, Minister of Public Works, says that no time will be lost in deciding which tender shall be accepted. All going well, he expects the bridge to be completed in five years. Howard Houlder, senior, aged 65, once a millionaire shipowner and shipbroker, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His unexpected failure has caused a sensation in the city of London. His reverses are the result cf industrial ventures during .the last four years. The failure does not in any way affect Howard Houlder and his partners, or the Houlder Bro-s. Company’ One hundred and fifty Salvation Army converts, in order to demonstrate tlreir penitance, cast their idols into a bonfire in a brazier in one of Aberdeen’s busiest streets before thousands of spectators. The fire was fed by a continuous supply of pipes, tobacco, cigarettes, powder puffs, playing cards, and cards bearing the names of other idols, including horse-racing, betting, theatres, kinemiis, prize fighting, sensational novels, and whisky drinking.