GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 185, 1 May 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY COMPLETE DISRUPTION THREATENED By Telegraph—Press Association. —COPYRIGHT. The Federal Executive of the Australian Labour Party has decided to hold a fresh inquiry into the ballot-box scandal. The action threatens to complete the disruption of the party, members regarding it as a reflection on the State executive, and the recent State conference, which endorsed the State executive’s action in ieg;ard to the expulsions in connection with the matte!.

The Australian Olympic team sailed from Sydney by the Ormonde.

Hop® has been abandoned for the safety of 114 miners in the Banwood Mine, West Virginia.

The Paris correspondent of the Central News Agency reports that Von Hindenburg is seriously ill.

Vincent Richards has followed Tilden’s example and has resigned from the American Davis Cup team.

The fire at Dalby, Queensland, has been extinguished. It is estimated that the total damage amounts to £lO,OOO.

Major Forbes Leith and Allan Wroe, residents of Leeds, have started an attempt to drive a 14 horse-power motor van from Leeds to India and hack.

The Irish Free State has sunt a peremptory Note to Mr. J. H. Thomas, Colonial (secretary, asking him io establish without delay a Boundary Commission of three, in accordance with the Free State Treaty.

Mai Daugherty, brother of the deposed American Attorney-General, has been arrested bv order of the Senate, for refusing to‘testify at the inquiry. After an hour in gaol he was set free, liis bail being fixed at £lOOO.

Krupps have successfully tested a turbine railway engine, running at from 6000 to 8000 revolutions per minute. The engine is more expensive to build than' ths ordinary locomotive but burns 20 per cent, less coal.

In the House of Commons, at question time, Mr. Vernon Hartshorn, Post-master-General, stated that the Imperial Wireless Committee’s report was still being considered, but lie hoped a decision would be reached shortly. Every Dominion had been heard from. —Reuter.

A New York message states that Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Canadian Arctic explorer, was leaving on Tuesday night for Australia and Africa to explore regions hitherto considered uninhabitable, which he hopes may be found reclaimable for habitation. He sails from San Francisco on May 12.

Charles Kresney was opening his jewellery store in New York when three masked bandits hit him on the head and rendered him unconscious. A charwoman gave the alarm, but tho burglars escaped with gold, platinum, and diamonds, worth £30,000. —Sydney “Sun” Cables.

Following the consolidation _of the Hearst newspaper and magazine ir terests. the company has issu r 12,000.000 dollars’ worth of first m< rgage bonds at 6i per cent., to be placed on the market at par, a New York message to. th© Sydney “Sun” says. This is th© largest newspaper issue ever made in America.

Owing to the money crisis in Berlin, manipulators who sought to injure Franc© by “bear” sales of francs are now hoist with their own petard, and are faced with enormous losses on settling dav, a Sydney “Sun” message says. An Austro-Gcrman group has tost seventeen millions, and a number of banks have closed their doors.

Lieut.-Colonel Charles Jarrott has disappeared, and his friends have been able to find no trace of him 'inc© March 24, when lie left for MaidSnhcad to play golf (says a Renter message from London). It is believed that be has lost his memory, possibly ns a result of an accident during the Gordon Bennett motor enn race in 1903. His secret marriage with Violet, Rosslyn, created a sensation in I»03.

Though not associated with the nonunion theatre campaign movement, begun bv the Actors’ Association, with the object of regulating entry to the stage, it is suggested that admittance should be only by diploma, a London message savsi The secretary savs that tho movement should eventually prevent people with no qualifications beyond a private income or a certain kind of notoriety from getting on the stage. •

The late Marie Corelli’s parentage has been exploded by a niece who explains that Marie was born in London over seventy years ago (says a Sydney “Sun” cable). Her real name was Caroline Cody, and she was the eloest daughter of a famTTv ©f nine, her father being in the humblest circumstances. She was adopted when five years old. and frequently visited her parents until she became famous with the publication of her. first novel.

Tlie reasons, given for the withdrawal of the Commonwealth line from the Java service are that the high wages and the manning conditions have made it impossible for the line to continue the service without heavy loss, the whole of which is attributable to the difference between the cost of Australian crews and those of vessels registered outside Australia. Tho vessels at present engaged in the trade will be laid up on the'completion of their voyages.