GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 101, 24 January 1927, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES

The South Australian bush fires have been extinguished. They caused damage exceeding £lO,OOO. A London message says England is covered in snow throughout the tryMr. W. C. Angwin, Western Australian Minister of Lands, who has been appointed Agent-General in London, announced that the _ Premier would take over his portfolio. A Suva message states that the Ganges, from India, with small-pox aboard, will not enter the harbour, but will sail direct to the Nukulau Quarantine Station, where the passengers will be landed The United States Treasury Department on Saturday officially informed Mrs. Chaplin that it was unable to assist her to collect alimonv, as Charlie Chaplin’s funds are tied up in income tax liens. The Belgian National Bank is buying np old gold and silver coins at the rate of twenty-seven bclgas for a gold twentv-franc piece. It hopes to receive the contents of small farmers’ “stockings.” Mr. J. D. Robertson, a former Victorian, claims to have produced a cold electric light adaptable for illumination of motors and aeroplanes, from waste energy from the magnetos thereof, according to a London message to Sydney “Sun.”