GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 26 April 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(BY Telegraph.—Press association.) Copyright. Following recent heavy rains all restriction on the use of water in Sydney has been removed. Two collieries on the Northern New South Wales fields have resumed work. Twelve are still idle. During the nine days and five nights the Sydney Royal Show was open, 6,055,000 people attended, an increase of 68,300 compared with last year. There have been more than 50,000 deaths from plague in the Punjab alone during the past fourteen weeks. —Sydney “Sun” Cable. The strike in the Sydney coke industry, after lasting throe months, has ended. A meeting pf men decided to resume immediately. The United States has officially informed, the newly-constitiuted Greek Republic that it intends to accord the same recognition as it gave to the previous monarchy. The Australian Labour Conference adopted a resolution denouncing the action of the Government in ordering the arrests in connection with the shipping dispute. There has been a general resumption of work by the Southampton shipyard workers, and the lock-out notices have been withdrawn throughout the country.—Reuter. At an inquest on Mr. Hall, the Borden bank manager, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Goldenberg. . The jury recommended more protection for people working in circumstances similar to Hall’s.—Reuter. Holway, American professional runner, has written to the manager of the Australian Olympic team offering his services in an. honorary capacity as coach and adviser to the Australian team. The late Lionel Monckton, the composer, left £79,517. The bequests include £lO,OOO to his widow, Gertie Miller, and £lOOO to the Royal Academy of Music to found a Monckton scholarship. A patrol of the Berkshire Regiment was fired on by Mahsuds near Razmak, a Reuter message from Delhi states. Two soldiers wero killed and one was wounded. The Razmak artillery, in reprisal, shelled th© Mahsud capital. The fire at Beilingen, New South Wales, destroyed 13 shops in the main street, doing damage estimated at £20,000. The damage was mainly du© to lack of a fir© brigade. All the firefighting was done by volunteers. The trial has opened at Cawnpor© of four Indians charged with conspiracy to wage war against the King. It is alleged that thev got into touch with Communists, with the object of breaking India from the rest of tho Empire.—Sydney “Sun” Cable. The United States Senate by 67 votes to 17, adopted a soldier bonus measure, embodying endowment insurance. The Bill is substantially similar to that which passed the House of Representatives last month, involving the expenditure during the next twenty years of more than 2000 million dollars. A telegram from Hilo, Hawaii, says a series of earthquakes. which began yesterday, caused the village of Kapoho to he abandoned. The inhabitants. mostly natives, fled from their homes in panic, fearing a volcanic eruption cf one ef the craters on the island.