GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1925, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

Bi Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. The West Australian Government has decided to introduce a Bill in the Legislative Assembly increasing members’ salaries to £6OO a year. The death of Sir Francis Villiers, P.C;, formerly British Ambassador at Brussels, is announced by a London ' message. Angerstein, who was convicted- at Berlin on charges of murdering eight persons, has been executed. He made no statement. A fire gutted the engineering works of the Whittingslow Engineering Company at Adelaide, lhe damage, is estimated at £lB,OOO. A fire at Brunswick, Victoria, destroyed the large joinery factory of H. G. Watson. Several adjacent buildings and several private properties also suffered. The damage runs into several thousands of pounds. At the inquest on Claire Prowse,. the telephone girl who died at Junee, New South Wales, of wounds believed to have been inflicted with a razor, John Smith wa§ committed for trial/on a charge of murder. Eighty-one pictures, the collection of Camille Castiglione, the Austrian exmillii naire, were sold by auction at Amsterdam for £90,000. They included Rembrandt’s portrait of Syndic (£17,833) and the "Resurrection of Lazarus” (£12,833). Professor Gilbert, of California, and Mr. J. P. Babcock, Fisheries Commissioner of British Columbia, two of the world’s leading deep-sea fish authorities, are leaving in December to survey the salmon' situation around New Zealand and Australia.—Sydney. “Sun” Cable. The New South Wales InspectorGeneral of Mental Hospitals, in his annual report, describes the . situation in regard to mental defectives as serious, and recommends the Government to provide legislation to cope with the position and provide for the segregation ot this class. The New South Wales Cabinet has approved the Widows’ Pension Bill, which provides for a pension of £1 a week for widows without means of support. Weekly allowances .will also be made in respect of the children of widows. It is estimated that the scheme will involve an annual outlay of £500,000. Mr. Alan Cobham has departed from Croydon on his Trans-African flight to - Capetown on a De Haviland 50, the same machine in which he recently went to Rangoon with General Sir Sefton Brancker, a Reuter message from London states. . The machine has been reconditioned. .Cobham’s companions are Mechanic Elliott and a film rep re sentative, Mr. Emmett. The mechanical staffs of all. the coal mines in the Collie Field. West Australia, have- struck, demanding increased wages and improved conditions. The strike spread to the electricity nfant, and the town is in darkness. Mine officials are working the pumps, keeping the {nines free from water. A later message states fh.at both parties have agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration.