GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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The Queensland Government has offered Mr. Harry Qullett, who recently resigned the position of Director of Immigration, an important post as organiser of the agricultural industry.

Sir J. D. Connolly (Agent-General for Western Australia) visited Bradford and interviewed the principals of Hird and Sons' with reference to the establishing of a woollen factory, at. Albany.

■ Spain has challenged for the Davis Cup.

A message from Paris reports the death from influenza of Laurentz, the tennis-player. :

It is announced in iNew Yotk that Britain will send a goH team there tb compete in the international match for the G-. Herbert Walker Cup. It is also expected that Canada will compete.

Tho debris of the Pastoralist Finance Association's fire in Sydney ■ is* . still smouldering, and burst into flames yesterday, but .was soon extinguished. Intermittent flames are expected till the debris is cleared.

-Commander E. Hilton Young, replying to questions in the House Of Commons, said the Government would not undertake to introduce legislation providing reciprocally that residence in any part of. the Empire should go towards qualification for old-age pensions.

. The Full Court at Melbourne has fixed next Wednesday for hearing Colin Ross's application for leave to appeal against his conviction for the murder of the girl Tirschke, and for the appeal itself to the Court. It also directed prisoner's counsel to furnish not later thnn 11th March an affidavit * setting out the Ml grounds of tho appeal.