LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17318, 5 April 1920, Page 6

LATE CABLES

'’ v' *„ '“"' y^ l lP3seea K 'A'ssociattoii—By' Tel egrapli—Copy right. | m-i•■:•■' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. DISTRESS AT SKYE. LONDON, April A. ij>*-s-Df!i«quettk steamer service from Scot- . land has caused a shortage of food at S ;Skyo*and acute distress, especially on the 8 "bast of the islands, where no steamer has 8 ■ ■ arrived since mid-December. 1 - s’ ■ , r SUPPLY OP ZINC. < ' BRUSSELS, April 4. ■■■■.•• The Derniere Heure ’ states that the f British and Belgian Governments have i / Signed a contract" by which Belgium will I receive on favorable terms 24,G00 tons of 1 / Australian raw zinc. Delivery will he t ■ Completed within two years.’ A RUMOR REVIVED.. LONDON, April 4., 1 Rumor is being revived that Captain J 7 Hon. Frederick Edward Guest-, ALP., will * 7bo appointed Governor-General of Anstra- • lia, and will be .raised to the peerage. TRIBUTE TO BRITISH ARMS! j PARIS, April L General Mangin, writing to the ‘Dens '■ !Mondea,’ confirms Field Marshal French’s « y account that Laurezac’s unannounced re- 1 ' ■ tirement forced the British to withdraw, and condemns Lis own staff, who were responsible also for not surmounting early ■ ‘ and ir.ciitable misunderstandings. He ; extols Brittin’s assistance as invaluable i ’ morally, and effective -beyond the question - of numbers. A BONDI TRAGEDY. , i SYDNEY; April 5. The body of a girl, supposed to be one » of the children of the Palanque family, who disappeared from' Bondi on Tuesday, , ■ has been recovered near where the family are supposed to have entered the water. SUGAR SHORTAGE. . MELBOURNE, April 5. A. As a result of the increased price of tngar, the Australian jam factory at South Parra is closing, rendering 600 hands idle. % THE COITBTB—TO-DAY CITY POLICE COURT, Eh- (Before Mr A. Russell, J.P.) 7, ■ Drunkenness.—David Douglas was convicted and discharged. -- Charges of Theft.—-Patrick Clare wds charged with, at Wellington, stealing 40 watches valued at £2O, the property of the Union Steam Ship Company.—Detec-tive-sergeant Cameron, in asking for a remand until Friday, said that accused was a seaman aboard the steamer Tarawera. —Remanded accordingly,, bail being al- .' lowed accused in his own recognisance of £SO and two sureties of £25 each. Patrick Holland, a young man, was charged with stealing a Brownie camera valued at 15s 9d, the property of Cecil v Sylvester. —Detective-sergeant Cameron, '■!■■■■■■■ in applying for a remand, stated that accused was m a Government position. The :■■■■ ■ property- had been recovered.—Accused was remanded until Friday, bail being allowed iiimself in £25 and one surety of i a like amount. Frederick George Smith and John Alexander Metcalf were charged with stealing a handbag and contents of ■!: the value of £27 17s 6d, the property of Wilson Campbell.—The detective-sergeant asked for a remand until Friday. Smith, a porter on the railway, was already on remand on another charge, and he asked . that the bail be increased in his case, as other charges were pending. The other • accused, who was married, was also eraployed in the railway.—The accused were, remanded until Friday. Smith’s bail was Increased to £IOO, with two sureties of £6O each, and Metcalf’s was fixed—himself in £SO and two sureties of £25 each.