GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 89, 12 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

I (OHirKll PKKSS ASSOCIATION.—;CO?YRIOHT.> A message from Lisbon states that the country is now calm, and the.railway services are being resumed. A Sydney message states that Mr. W. A. Watt has 1- returned, but he declined to make any comment regarding his resignation of the Federal Treasurership. The King received the Earl of Liverpool and invested him with the Grand Cross of the Bath. jive members of the Australian delegation to the Empire Press Conference have returned to Sydney by the Niagara. The totalisatoi investments during the four clays of the Hand wick Meeting amounted to £011,000, easily a record. A Sydney messago states that Mr. Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, has decided not to attend the Trade Union Conference in London in November, as he has been advised by the editor of the London Daily Herald not to go.

A message from Adelaide states that Major Sanders, representing the Egyptian Gove.riiment, says ne has ./concluded a contract with the Australian Wheat Board to supply wheat anil flour to Egypt, but the board desired that the particulars should not be published at present. Owing to industrial troubles" the Brisbane wool sales set down for tho 19th October have been postponed, and 59,000 bales are held up. " Mr. Howo. Minister for the Territories, is investigating the allegation that Japanese are secretly entering Northern Australia. It is reported from Sydney that the" price of coal from Wonthaggi has been increased by 5s a ton, and other black coal by 6s. A Melbourne message states that the 'Cricket Association has decided that the admission and charges for the test matches shall be 2s and 3s 6d. It was considered that the board's recommendation of Is 6d and 3s was inadequate to cover the liability.