GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 78, 26 December 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

Tlie late Mr. Frank Munsey, the. American publisher left 20,000,000 dollars to liis nearest relatives, an aged sister, and four second cousins.

Mr. E. F. L. Wood, recently British Minister of Agriculture, and now Vicc-rov-designate of India, takes the title of Baron Irwin, of Kirby-under-Dale.

As the result of a conference of representatives of the British Printing Federation and the Newspaper . Society tile evening papers will be published in most of the provincial towns to-day.

The “Daily Telegraph” states that it is understood that ex-King Ali, of the Hejaz, has left Jeddah for Bagdad Abdul Aziz Nfjd of Eastern Arabia, was expected to make a triumphal entry on Thursday.

The annual report of the Sydney Harbour Trust discloses that during the year 8092 vessels of a gross tonnage of '15,623,899 entered the port. Tins is only 3.2 per cent, below tile pre-war record.

A return of the Sydney Water Boaid shows that during the year 10,939 new buildings were completed and connected with the water supply, in the city and suburbs, compared with IM- lU . the previous year, which was the highest vet recorded. Buildings totalled 1'125 at a cost of £11,567,149, compared with £14,3411,071 in 1921.