CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1934, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

CUBAN CABINET.

[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] HAVANA, June 25. President Mendieta re-appointed all but four members of the Cuban Cabinet to-day. The four are the Secretary of the Treasury, Joaquin Saenz; the Secretary for Justice, Carlos Saladrigas; the Secretary of the the Presidency, Emererio Santovenia; and the Secretary for Public Instruction, .Torje Manach. They refused to return. Augustin Ecosta has oeen appointed as Secretary of the Presidency. The other three have not been replaced.

EMPIRE PRODUCE.

LONDON, June 26. The Dominion High Commissioners will meet Mr. Thomas and Mr. El* liott to-morrow at the Dominions’ Office, to break the ground of Empire trade problems. They are no closer to the meat solution. An informal conference with Mr Bruce and Sir J. Parr is a step by the British Government toward finding a way to safeguard the interests of Home beef producers, and check the fall in prices in the cattle trade. The agreement with Argentina provides that there will be no further reduction in supplies unless the Dominions similarly reduce. The Government is free after the expiry of the Ottawa agreements to restrict supplies from the Dominions, but hopes a voluntary arrangement will be reached. It is believed that Britain has already approached Argentina. Meanwhile, the Council of the Central Chamber of Agriculture demands a. subsidy of £8,500,000, equivalent to a penny a pound, until the expiry of the Argentina agreements .enables this to be produced by a levy on imports.

VISITING DELEGATIONS. RUGBY, June 25. The Polish official delegation will arrive in London, to-morrow, to discuss with British Government representatives, the conclusion of a tariff agreement to supplement the treaty of commerce and navigation of 1923. A party of Swedish members of Parliament, who are paying a visit in return for that of the British members of Parliament, who went to Sweden last year, were received at the Foreign Office by Lord Stanhope, Foreign Under Secretray, in the unavoidable absence of Sir John Sim. The visitors afterwards went to the Cenotaph, where they laid a wreath. They took luncheon at the Commons, as guests of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and I in the afternoon were received by the Lord Chancellor, in the Lords.

WHEAT ESTIMATE

LONDON, June 26

The Institute of International Agriculture’s information to June 20, is that Europe’s wheat harvest has been adversely affected by weather, and will probably be 260,000,000 bushels below that of 1933, but should equal that of 1932, and be well above the average of the preceding years.