GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 179, 23 April 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Br Telegraph—Press Association. —Ooftbight. A Sydney message says the weather is again fine, but cold. Further earth tremors have occurred in Derbyshire, and some factory chimneys fell. The Prince of Wales has returned to England from his visit to France. Reuter. The Turkish Assembly passed the entire constitution and charter and adjourned for six months. —Reuter. Maclaren, the British airman who is making A round-the-world flight, has left Bagdad for Bushire. The Performing Animals’ Defence League is petitioning Mr. Arthur Henderson, Home Secretary, to prohibit the cowboy contests at Wembley. Sydney “Sun” Cables. British aircraft manufacturers are tendering for big new types of machine for use in experimental passenger and cargo flights to Cairo, with the intention of eventually using travel to Australia.—Sydney ‘Sun Cable. A Republican demonstration in Dublin, in celebration of tho insurrection of 1919 was a fiasco, a Svdney Sun message states. A small minority of the huge crowd held up their hands when a resolution declaring the allegiance to the Rupublic was put to the vote, proving that the majority supported the Free State. An innovation was tried in Westminster Abbey on Easter Sunday, when the sermons wore reproduced by loud speakers in different payts of. the building remote from the pulpit. The experiment is .regarded as only a partial success. People stated that the Dean’s voice sounded like a gramophone record, and some passages were missed. The London “Daily Express” understands that the directors of the Empire Exhibition were astonished tore ceive a writ from Mr. Howard Carter, who is lecturing in America, complaining that the reproduction of Tutankhamen’s tomb, constructed m the Amusement Park, violate his copyright in the photographs. Mr. Aumonier, the sculptor, and Mr. Weigall, the Egyptologist who designed the model, say they used many people’s photographs. Tlie lawsuit will be heard after the Whitsuntide vacation. pi the meantime the model tomb will be open to the public.