GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 85, 7 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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Admiral Benson, chairman of the United States Shipping "Board, has denied the charges that the- Germans will derive unfair benefits from the shipping combine with the Hamburg-American line, and reiterated that the arrangement was fair.

According to a Chicago message, it is understood that the Grand Jury which is investigating the baseball scandal will in all probability indict three players of the other large baseball organisation, the National League, for illicit dealings connected with certain games.

Owing to a minor accident in the en-gine-room on Sunday midway _ between* Suva and Honolulu, the TaJiiti,. which left Auckland for Vancouver on 27th. September, is unable to lies full engine^ power, and probably will lose some hours. Nobody was hurt.

It is reported from Vancouver that the Waimarino sailed on Tuesday for Wellington with two thousand tons of paper.

Advices from Manila state that a great fire is raging. The Senate, the Treasury, and the mint buildings, have been destroyed.

Brazil has passed a decree permitting the free exportation of sugar, on condition that sufficient stockß are maintained for home consumption. The prohibition, of exportation has been enforced since July, 1917.

A London message states that Mr. W. E. Johnson, the American temperance advocate, was refused a hearing at this Reading Town Hall. "Stink bombs" were thrown in, And huge crowds outside tried to rush tflo hall. Detectives escorted Mr. Johnson from the building.

The Maheno, which is leaving Sydney to-day, will take forty passengers, who will join the Marama at Wellington. They were compelled to take the passage via Auckland, owing to the cutting out of the Moana.

A London message states that there are twenty-six entries for the amateur billiards championship, including Fry, the holder, and five ex-champions:' Hooper will meet Christey, the ex-champion, in the first round on 13th February.

The trial of twenty-eight members of the so-called "Vengeance Society" at Cairo, for sedition and plotfiing against the Allied authorities, resulted in the conviction of twenty-five of the accused.

It is reported in New York that B. G. Welsh, the English promoter, has signed a contract with Levinsky for a twenty rounds fight with Joe. Beckett within three months after the Levinsky contest with Carpentier. Levinsiky in, the contests with Beckett will get a> guarantee of 50,000 dollars if he has deieated Carpentier, 25,000 dolfcs it ha draws, and 15,000 dollars if Carpentier beats him.

Lord Forster has been swoi'U. in as Governor-General of Australia, and had. a fine reception. Sir R. C. Jlunro-Fer-guson has sailed for Londor by the Orsova from Perth.

The Federal Senate defeated the Bill fixing the entertainment tax at 3s. Mr. Hughes declined to comment on the matter.