GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 October 1928, Page 9

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

TIPPING SCANDAL

Australian Preus Assn.—United Service. (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)

PARIS, September 29

The system of tipping is the subject of Bill which M. Godarts has introduced in the Senate with the object of compelling all the managements to distribute to their employees the 10 ner cent, that is added to bills for service. Even on top of this charge, queues of waiters line up to fleece the clients, who have now discovered that scarcely any of the 10 per cent, roaches the staffs in many of the restaurants where casuals are enrolled without any wage, and live on what they obtain by tips, some even paying a premium to be taken on.

LUDENDORFF’S BREAKDOWN.

LONDON, September 29

The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent reveals a carefully guarded war secret to the effect that General Ludendorff, on September 19, 1918, wrought by the knowledge of the military disaster approaching, had a fit at a hotel at a spa. Then there was an .avalanche of words about the comingdebacle. This was followed by a telephone message from Kaiser Wilhelm advising him to appeal for an armistice.

BOYS’ EMPIRE TOUR

LONDON, September 29.

Folowing the tours of South Africa and. Canada, the biggest tour of public school boys is being arranged to sail on April 1 next. The party will spend seven weeks in New Zealand, and thence go to Australia, returning from Sydney. It is expected the party will be composed of fifty boys from all the great schools, including Eton and Harrow. The cost is estimated at £l5O per boy.

PANAMA AND BRITAIN.

PANAMA, September 29.

A ten years’ commercial treaty has been signed by Panama and Great Britain. It was published to-day. At present it includes only Britain and Northern Ireland, but it may be extended to include the British Dominions, Colonies, and possessions and Protectorates. It stipulated that the treaty is not applicable to the canal zone, and that “neither shall His Britannic Majesty invoke the stipulation regarding the most favoured nation in the Treaty with reference to the present or future stipulations undertaken as between the United States and Panama for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the canal.” HOMELAND REVENUE. LONDON/ September 30. The six-monthly Treasury returns are as follow: — Revenue £312,425,000, compared with £328,587,000 last year; expenditure £388,393,000, compared with £384,757,000, a deficiency of £75,967,000 compared with £56,169,000 last year. The principal decrease was in income tax, which dropped from £20,859,000 to £55,231,000, but death duties were unexpectedly buoyant and yielded £ 41,750’,000, compared with £35,505,000 last year, though the Chancellor anticipated a decrease, he is budgetting for seventy-two millions for the complete year.

PORT OF HULL.

LONDON, September 29

Sir T. Ryrie (Australian High Commissioner), visited Hull, where he was taken on a tour of the docks, and given a dinner at night. The speeches referred to the volume of trade between Yorkshire and Australia, 1 and to the facilities that Hull provided for receiving Australian produce and distributing it throughout the northern portion of the country, it being particularly suitable for receiving shipments of wool for the Yorkshire trqde, and also for marketing apples. He was the guest of the North Eastern Railway Company, and the City Council. He was welcomed by the Lord Mayor, the Sheriff, railways officials, and members of the Chamber of Commerce. There was a large crowd present when he laid a wreath of wattle laurel leaves on the city war memorial, modelled on the London Cenotaph. The-wreath was inscribed: “From the Government and people.”

PACIFIC CABLES.

LONDON, September 30

The Pacific Cable Board report for the year ended March 31 last, shows the traffic receipts decreased £80,017 entirely due to the beam service. The principal loss was in cheap traffic. The ordinary traffic was not seriously affected.

FAMILY ESTATE FOR SALE

LONDON, Sept. 29

The “Daily Mail” states that high taxation has compelled Sir Henry Dering to sell his Kentish estate of three thousand acres, including the village of Plucking and a historic manor house, which his family has held in its possession for nine hundred years.

SHIP’S GUN CRACKED

LONDON, September 29

A crack a quarter of an inch -wide, extending the whole length of a thirteen inch gun on the battle cruiser Tiger, was fortunately discovered between shoots; otherwise there might have been a terrible disaster.