GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

AMAZING scenes in DUBLIN THEATRE \ FREE FIGHT WITH ACTORS By Telegraph—Pres» AssociationCopyright. (Rec. -February 12, 7.25 p.m.) London, February 12. There was an amazing scene in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, when Scan O’Casey’s play “The Plough and the Stars” was produced. The play deals with the recent revolutionary movement in Ireland. In the second act a woman tried to make a speech from the gallery, objecting to defamation of the memory of men who took part in the rebellion in Easter week, 1916. In the third act a number clambered on to the stage and a free fight with the actors occurred before the shouting audience. When the curtain was lowered a man who was swinging on it was knocked by an actor into the orchestra. Women began smashing the music stands. William Yeats, the poet, vainly appealed for order. Eventually the police arrived and the play proceeded to the end, in spite of repeated inter-ruptions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. At the carbonite works at Schlebuscu, Germany, a dynamite shed was blown to atoms (reports a Reuter message). Five were killefl in the building and another was killed nearby. The cause of the disaster is unknown. It is reported from Charleville, Queensland, that cattle are dying in great numbers all over the south-west of the State owing to the drought. One owner lost between 40,000 and 50,000 head. These cattle are over 200 miles from a railway, and too weak to travel. The International Federation of University Women is awarding two research fellowships of £5OO each to be held .in Australia in 1927. The fellowships are to be used for a year of research in biology, anthropology, economics, or colonial history.—Reuter.

By 76 votes to 14, the Queensland Labour Convention decided that every member of the organisation should sign a pledge declaring that lie was not a member of the Communist or any other organisation, the interests, of which were opposed to the policy of the Labour Party.

The Clyde Engineering Company is testing the validity of the Forty-Four Hours Week Act (reports a Sydney message). It is applying to the High Court for a writ of prohibition directed against the Magistrate who recently ruled that the company was liable for overtime for all time worked over fortyfour hours weekly.

Giving evidence at the inquest in connection with the Redhead (New South Wales) mine disaster,, a district check inspector said that when he went to the lamp-room to obtain a lamp four days after the explosion, there was not one fit to take down the mine. After a considerable time he got one which he considered a disgrace to the company. He also found gas in the mine which had not been reported by the deputy.

The deaths of two pioneers of the road are recorded (states a Reuter message from London) in the obituaries of Mr. E. F. Fardon, at Stoneleigh, near Coventry, who claimed to have made the first all-steel bicycle with rubber tires before 1868. and Mr. Belmont, who died at Lyons, destitute and forgotten, said to be the inventor of the internal combustion engine and the first man to drive a motor-car on file highways.

The biggest individual city property deal in the history of Sydney was effected when a Melbourne syndicate bought a block bounded by Market and Castlereagh Streets for £400,000. Recent sales in Market Street properties now total threequarters of a million, and indications point to Market Street becoming the business centre of gravity of the city. Additional sales in this vicinity bring the total amount to almost two million pounds.

The Wilkins transpolar expedition supply party started on Thursday on the first lap to the Point Barrow supply base (states a Reuter message from New York). The party is following the Tanana River for thirty-five miles, and will then turn the revolting drums of their snow motors to the overland trail across the Endicptt mountains. The sledges are loaded to the limit of their capacity, with fifteen tons of supplies. The weather is ideal, the temperature being 10 degrees below zero.

The Central News. Parliamentary correspondent says that the Whips expect early news of Sir Guy Gaunt, the missing member of the House of Commons. He is still in America, and, although he is making progress from the effects of his accident, the date of his return to England is indefinite Another version is that Sir Guy Gaunt went to Hong-Kong in December, and engaged a small steamer in which to cruise the South Seas.

Dr. H. E. Cox, a well known English analyst, in a special communication to the Society of Public Analysts, savs that out of 39 samples of apples, only five were free from arsenic, and eleven contained more than the statutory limit. Arsenic was ‘ found in the flesh of the fruit to the extent of 3 per cent, of that on the skin. Contrary to the general view, arsenic could not be removed by washing the fruit under a tap. Even scrubbing Jett an appreciable amount on the skins.

The Church Assembly in England (reports; a Sydney “Sun” message), appointed a committee to inquire respecting the capital J involved in a scheme to pav parochial clergy a minimum of £4OO yearly. Prebendary Partridge said that the income of the parochial clergy in recent years had increased by £2,500,000 annually. While lie did not desire affuence, he wished to avoid the depths of poverty. There was at present widespread discontent and anxiety.

The Countess of Cathcart, who had been detained on the Cunard liner Carmania since she arrived at New York on Tuesday, left the ship on Thursday, and was taken to Ellis Island to face a special board of inquiry. After hearing the case (a Reuter message reports) , the board ordered the countcss to be-excluded from the United States on the ground of “moral turpitude and her admission of adultery.” The countess, who is being held at Ellis Island, lias announced that she will appeal to the Secretary of Labour. ,