GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 87, 9 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(tIVITEB FRIES A6B9CIATieN.—COPTRIMT.) I (AVSiaALUN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) A meeting of Melbourne citizens urged the Lord Mayor that in memory of^the great Australian victory in August, 1918, Melbourne citizens should adopt VillersBretonnenx and become responsible for the restoration of the town. One of the largest insolvency schedules filed in recent years is that of Robert W. Matthews, importer, says a Melbourne message. The debts total £73,686, and the assets £22,882. The ; bankrupt's statement candidly admits that he obtained money for investment by representing that investments had produced profits whereas he at all times knew that the transactions were fictitious and that there were no such profits. Baron Kato, in a speech in. Tokio, said that Japan would be condemned for ever if she consented to the conclusion with the United States of a treaty which would please the anti-Japanese agitators in America. It is announced in New York that the Paris-Orleans railway in France has placed an order for fifty 100-ton "Pacific" type locomotives with American j builders. It is announced that the United States population is 105,683,108, representing an increase of nearly 15 per cent, over 1910, | when the total was 91,972,266. A cable message from Noumea states that two native chiefs have been publicly guillotined for organising and participating in the late native rebellion. The price of bread is again causing a widespread agitation in England, owing to the suggested increase to Is 3d. The public, through the newspapers, demand a. reduction to Is Id owing to the falling price of wheat. A by-e'leotion in Ilford, due to the death of Sir Peter Griggs, resulted :— Wise (Coalition Unionist), 15,612; King (Labour), 6577; Thompson (Liberal), 6515. At the last general election the voting was : Sir Peter G-riggs (Coalition Unionist), 15,870; Rev. H. Dunnico (La. bmir), 4621; T. W. Garsido (Liberal), 3261. A ballot taken by the Sailors' and Firemen's Union in London resulted against the nationalisation of shipping, and in favour of affiliating with tho Labour Tarty.