GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 193, 10 May 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

EXCHANGE PROBLEM RATES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS (BY telegraph.—Press Copyright. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce will propose at the annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, to be held on May 21 suggesting that as the present rate of exchange between Great Britain and Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, (and vice versa, is a great handicap to trade with these countries, all the Governments concerned should give serious consideration to the matter with a view to securing a favourable rate of exchange being established. The motion will also urge that the recommendation of the Imperial Conference on this subject be adopted without delay. Latest Census returns show the population of Moscow to be 1,511,025, including 86,171 Jews. —Reuter.

The Portuguese aeroplane on its way East is reported to have crashed at Pipar, Jodhpur. The airmen were not injured.—Reuter.

The sporting paper “L’Auto” states that Jean Borotlira, Rene Lacoste, and Jacques Brugnon are to undertake a tennis tour or Australia in the autumn. No mention is made of Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen.

The inquest into the death of John George O’Neill, the taxi-driver whose body was found in the Swan River, West Australia, has concluded, and as a result George William Auburn has been committed for trial on a charge of murder.

The King and Queen of Rumania will arrive m London on Monday from the Continent, and will leave on Thursday, after a round of Royal ceremonies, including a luncheon at the Guildhall on Tuesday and a State ball on Wednesday.

Professor Pais, of Naples, claims to have discovered a method of rejuvenation by the use of radium emanations to stimulate existing glands, and is said to have obtained remarkable results in experiments on animals. — Sydney “Sun” Cable.

Lord Ashtown, charged with assaulting two schoolboys while travelling on the Dublin-South-Eastern railway, pleaded guilty to common assault, and was fined £lOO. The Judge announced that if the money was paid before next sessions he would not impose a further penalty.

An audience was watching the screening of a film at a Melbourne picture theatre, when flames were noticed shooting from the operating box. Cries of “Fire” were raised, and a general stampede followed, in. which several people were seriously injured as a result of being crushed. . The fire was extinguished after very little damage had been done.

Freemasons honoured King Solomon, and therefore Masons could not refuse the Jews admission to brotherhood, said Sir William Raynor, Provincial Grand Master, addressing a meeting of the Yorkshire Freemasons at Bradford. He urged Masons to act according to Masonic principles in this matter, instead of raising obstacles against the admission of Jews. —Sydney “Sun” Cable.

Replying to a deputation, the Premier of New South Wales, Sir George Fuller, said that it was apparent that under private enterprise better and more economic management. _ was secured than was the case with Government concerns. He declared that the time had arrived when, in view of the Public Debt, the huge interest bill, and heavy taxation, the Government should consider whether, instead of spending large sums, it should not give private enterprise more consideration than had been the case hitherto in the construction of railways in the State.

The Newspapers’ Society, in. London, adopted a resolution expressing the opinion that the Bill before Parliament relating to the reporting of divorce and other cases is an unjustifiable, illconsidered, and unwise interference with the established liberties of the Press; that if the Bill is passed, trials concerning the white slave traffic, the dope evil, and other matters in which sex questions arise will not be reported, and the Bill will thus play into the hands of guilty parties, whose chief desire is to keep their misdoings out of the Press.

The Bishop of Durham and York proposed that ordination to the diaconate should be allowed at the age of 21 instead of 23, so as to facilitate the ordination of poor candidates. He said there was a serious decline of quality in candidates, and that the intellectual penury of many of the clergy was too terrible to contemplate. Whether it was due to the new cult oi celibacy, to birth control, or to poverty making people averse to marriage, the old recruiting area for the clergy was now barren of supplies, end the shortage of candidates war threatening to bring an immense calamity to the English religion.