CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric TelegrapL.—Copyright.) "(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.)

WARSHIP NEARLY SANK

llobart, Feb. 20

'(lie warship Counter, si Inch washing in 111-- .stream, hud a. narrow escape from mishap. An artificer by misake ..pencil a valve, and the ship tilled till the lower booms were awash and it was teared that beaching would be ne.-cssary. All the boat- were got out. but the application "l the colli-s'.-ii mat hu-kily enabled the closing ..I the valve. PHKSS CONFERENCE IN CANADA. *> London. Feb. 18. Elaborate .n rangements .-ne neing made in Canada in connection with tie- Enipii" Press Union delegate's' tour and the forthcoming conference ii! Ottawa. 'The delegation will leave|,iverj..'ol "ii the 17th duly and will return m the middle ~f September, lit svill consist of I'M) proprieties, and editeis -.1 leading journals m all parts ~) the Empire. The tenr svill comprise the principal centres, enabling the .lel.-atcs to make a firsthand study "i Canadian conditions. Lord Rumbam svill be the chairman ol the United Killed Press delesgateiti. 'Ihe Dominion will be represented. TO HA CCO PRICES. London. Feb. 20. A i< port of the committee appointed under tii.' Profiteering Act. to inM une iiit.Athe prices of tobacco, deals < imnnlv svith the operation* of the Imperial Tobacco Company, which is believed to control GO per cent, of Ivntalii's tobacco. The committee point* ..ut thai- |>rice.s Jiave risen HO irt cent sine- 1914. but the duty has risen 122 per cent. It finds m> evidence thii* the cuiitpany's operations have eotitnblited in any seav to tin' rise in the price The. committee refrains from suggesting any safeguards aeainst the monopoly, but urges to rcYii.-ite th_s publication of profits of all 'combinations. It also urges the Government to take the powers to protect th-- ..üblic against a detrimental monopoly. 'The report docs not deal with tin- collateral companies in the Dominions.