GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 194, 12 May 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION* Copyright. Provided a crew is forthcoming, the agents of the Katoomba propose to dispatch the steamer from Sydney on Saturday. Efforts to settle the Melbourne tram strike were abortive and a compulsory conference has been called for to-day.

Returns for the past nine months show that the imports to Australia were valued at £106.853,803, and tho exports at £94,553,140.

Tho Pittsburg street car services are completely tied up through a strike of motormen and conductors, who asked for an increase in wages to 75 and 77 cents an hour.

Mr. Bruce announces that the Commonwealth Government. has entered into an arrangement with the British Government "Tor a new and comprehensive scheme of migration. All States are included, and the cost will bo ten millions, towards which the Commonwealth will contribute a substantial qouta.

The Helsingfors correspondent of the London “Times” states that 90 per cent, of the officers of the Finnish Army have resigned their commissions because the Government refuses to dismiss General Wilkama, the. Command-er-in-Chief, who, they declare, is lacking in organising ability. The. general is’said to have tendered his resignation but it was not accepted.

The British experts who are investigation- the management of the New South Wales railways will. report on the organisation and running of . passenner and goods traffic, fares, freights and" financial returns ; .matters, appertaining to the mechanical equipment, with respect to the types of locomotives and rolling stock ‘ matters affecting the maintenance of tho permanent way, station equipment, and signalling. Twenty-three doctors and chemists have been convicted at Marseilles of defrauding tho State to a total extent of £285,090 bv false charges for medical attendance and medicines to discharged disabled soldiers. Tlic fines inflicted varied from £4O to £5O, and carried four to five years’ suspension from practice. They were also ordered to refund GO per cent, of the amount involved in tho charges, and are to be imprisoned for from six months to two years.

Tho London “Daily Express” gives prominence to a report on tho new paralysis treatment by the inoculation with malaria, and says the Minister of Health is watching the experiments, which will shortly be concentrated on tho breeding of a parasite which will not cause a complete attack, but will yet benefit the paralysed, parts. The newspaper quotes a specialise in the new treatment, who declares it to be one of the greatest discoveries of modern medicine and as likelv to. be adopted at the Epsom Mental Hospital.