GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 121, 16 February 1926, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

THE BRITISH NAVY ADMIRALTY’S ECONOMIES Br Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. Tn a speech at Torquay, Mr. W. C Bridgeman announced that the Admiralty economies will not only cover the whole cost of the new construction programme, but will also save the tax paver over £2,000,000, without depriving the Navy of tlie power of carrying out its duties.—Reuter.

A fire in the furniture and bedding factory of Morris and Ludwig, at Prahran, caused damage to the building and stock estimated at £30,000.

The death is announced by a Reuter message from London of Mr. John Robertson, Labour member of the House of Commons for Bothwell, Lancashire.

No poll was required for the Cambridge University by-election, caused by the death of Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson. Mr. J. J. Withers (Conservative) was returned unopposed.

After making a false start, due to damaged snow motors, the Wilkins Expedition supply party recommenced its 700-mile trip to Point Barrow on Saturday. As the party left they were making less than three miles an hour. A picturesque suggestion is made m the English paper “Commercial Art,” to the effect that ail Empire goods should be “hall-marked” with a symbol such as the Wembley lion, in order to be easily recognised. The place and origin could be printed below.

The Supreme Court at Jerusalem confirmed the sentence of ten years passed on an Arab aged 106 years, who was found guilty of murdering his daughter The prisoner is so confident that he will serve his sentence that he ordered a new set of false teeth.

The Carmarthen Liberal Association has endorsed the resolution of the executive calling upon Sir Alfred Mond to resign his seat in the British House of Commons as a result of his decision to join the Conservative Party. Sir Alfred is at present in the Riviera.

The Turkish National Assembly has ratified the Turco-Russian Convention, which was signed at Paris on December 7 Tewfik Rushid Bey, Foreign Commissioner, in his speech, declared that the agreement was the natural outcome of Turkey’s friendly relations with Russia, and aimed solely at the maintenance of peace.

The South African Government has appointed a Commission of three Nationalists, three members of the South African Party, and two Labour, to decide upon the design of a national flag. The Commission will be assisted bv a small committee of heraldic experts. Three thousand designs have been submitted.—Reuter.

News from Cologne states that Dr. Zetz. of the Freiburg University, claims that he has discovered in the Witches’ Valiev in the Black Forest the habitation of a pre-historic man who flourished from 25,000 to 30,000 years ago. Previous researches made in the same neighbourhood unearthed bones dating back to the Ice Age, and large quantities of pre-historic flint implements.

Sir Harry E. Bruce-Porter, the wellknown medical authority, speaking on behalf of the Co-operative Convalescent Fund of London, said that it was a tragedy seeing so many girls trying to get willowy figures. He could not see why girls wanted to look like weak, weedy young men. He considered thev would get with that figure digestive troubles and the risk of consumption.

In reference to the statement that the Prince of Wales’s bodyguard had been doubled, it is officially explained that the Prince ordinarily moves about attended solely by a plain clothes officer, Inspector Burt, and frequently dispenses with a bodyguard altogether. The misunderstanding has arisen simply because other officers have been appointed to relieve Inspector Burt occasionally.

The British Postmaster-General, in a communique, confirms the statement that the Rugbv station talked by wireless telephony to New York from 4 o’clock on Sunday morning until 7.30 in the evening. The conditions were abnormally favourable, and the voices were easilv recognisable. He adds, however, that numerous technical difficulties must be overcome before a commercial service can be established.

While Spencer Stratton, the _ NewZealand motor-cyclist, was participating in a heat of” the two miles scratch race at Newcastle speedway on Saturday, his machine skidded, and Stratton was dashed against a fence. He was taken to the hospital suffering from severe abrasions to both his arms and face. Earlier in the evening Stratton won a special match race against C Datsbn, establishing a new track record for three miles, his time being 2min. 58 3-ssec.

In a letter to Sir Martin Conway, written from New York, Sir Joseph Duveen announces that in order to encourage British art, he is forming a small committee of men of acknowledged position and authority, and is placing at its disposal £lOOO per annum to purchase paintings by contemporary British artists, preferably promising voung artists. The committee will hold the pictures so acquired with power to lend or present them to anv public gallery in the British Isles, the British Empire, or the United States.

Cardinal O’Donnell, referring to dancing in his Lenten pastoral, says that when a mother permits her daughte> to go dancing, let her have as much Christian respect for herself as for them and provide the close attendance of a capable female companion who will not leave them together unshepherded in lonely ways where the wolf mav prowl in seeming innocence. So serious is the view of the bishops of Ireland in regard to the dangers of dancing that .they have ordered special instruction on the subject to be given four times yearly throughout the churches.