CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

L Luxton, of Melbourne, Is included in the eleven Cambridge oarsmen asked to assemble at New Year to practise for the boat race. • * •

The Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Right Hon. G. W. Forbes, Sir aeroplane by the few remaining flares to France on December 6. * t

Yen-hsi-shan, the Shansi ex-War Lord, has arrived in Tientsin, in the Japanese Concession, en route to 'lapan, thus definitely ending the recent warfare. 0

Canada mined 39,861,000 d ollars worth of gold In 1929, the largest amount in its history, and surpasse 1 only by the productions of South Afti ca and the United States. *

The Sydney Communist hungei strikers are now in a bad way. Three are in hospital. One man is tery weak. Gaol medical advices, however, are that forced feeding is not necessary yet. The men concerned were imprisoned for mahciouslj damaging a cottage at Clovelly.

In the House of Commons, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister’s amendment to continue the Dyestuffs Act till was defeated by 255 votes to -o. »*• Liberals, including Sir John bmw n, voted against the Government. Sei era of the Left Wing Labour members did not vote. * s

Mr IV. L. Everard (Unionist) inquired in the House of Commons whether, in the interests of economy, and in order to set au example to the country, the Government should appoint a Select Committee to consider a. 12$ Tier cent, reduction in ir J ei p^ rs salaries Mr. McDonald replied that the salaries had been fixed in 1911. and could not now be regarded as more than adequate.