GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6154, 11 August 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

TROUBLE OVER OFFICIAL SALARIES. .LONDON, August 9. The select committee on the Estimates found that, in view of the present financial stringency the moment chosen to make large increases in salaries was mQst inopportune, instancing an increase to the Assistant Financial Secretary to the War Office to £3500 from £2300 last autumn.—A. and N.Z. C.A.

IMPORTANT ARRESTS. ROME, August 9. Charles Grand, a Londoner, and Bernard Bruce,, of Sydney, have been arrested in Venice on charges of theft and cheating at cards. The police believe both men are wanted in England oil a charge of the theft of £25,000. A. and .N.Z.C.A. BOY SCOUTS TO ACCOMPANY SHACKLETON. a LONDON, August 9. Sir Ernest Shackleton intends interviewing eleven Boy Scouts aged between seventeen and nineteen, chosen by Baden Powell, with a view to taking one on his forthcoming expedition to the Antartic aboard the Quest. —A. and N.Z.C.A. THE BELGIAN DEBT. PARIS, August 9. British, French, and Italian Finance Ministers are conferring regarding the priority of the Belgian debt, the pi ice of coal, and other financial matters unsettled at the London Supreme Council meeting. —A. and N.Z.C.A. RAILWAY WAGES ’ PROBLEM. LONDON, August 9. The unions concerned conferred with the railway managers and have accepted reductions in the railway workshops skilled artislans' wages amounting to six shillings weekly, coinciding with the second cut under the engineers’ agreement. One hundred thousand men are affected. —A. and N.Z.C.A. • ‘FANTASTIC FARCE.” . LONDON, August 9. Lord lnchcape, writing to a Glasgow protest meeting against the AntiDumping Bill, describes the measure as a fantastic, unworkable farce. If passed, he said, Britain would be finished as far as the industries on which they were reiving were concerned. —A. and N.Z.C.A. - '

MEMORIAL SERVICE TO DEAD 'COMMONER. LONDON, August 9. The first memorial service ever held in the. crypt of Parliament House is being held on Thursday for ■ the larte Mr Wintringham.—A. and N.Z.C.A. HOME CROPS FLOCKS AND HERDS (Received August 10, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. The Board of Agriculture return for 1920 6ho\vs that the farmed area in England and Wales under crops or grass was 26,139,000 acres—a decrease of 368,000 acres; the area under wheat was 1,978,000 acres—an increase of 103,000 acres; and oats 137,000. The live stock figures were: Horses 1,384,000 —an increase of 18,000; cattle 5,515,000 —an increase of 423,000; pigs 2,505,000— an increase of 511,000. HUGE CONCERN CHANGES HANDS. LONDON, August 10. The Daily Chronicled Berlin correspondent says that the Forestal Laud, Timber, and Railway Company, a British concern, has purchased Renner’s Hamburg tanning and dye works, paying 5756 marks for each thousand mark share, or a total of fourteen million marks. The Germans drew the bulk of the raw material from the Argentina, where the Forestal Co. was overwhelmed. Renner’s forestal operations are worldwide. The company has a capital of more than five millions sterling. SALARIES OF HOME MINISTERS. LONDON, August 10. . Mr Lloyd George, before leaving England, intimated that Ministerial salaries would >be reduced shortly.—A., and N.Z.C.A. THE KOBE STRIKE. (Received Aug. 10. 9.30 p.m.) TOKYO-, Aug. 10. It is annonuced at Kobe that the striking shipyards workers have docided to resume work on condition that the preliminary compromise settlement giving the workers a voice in the mechanical direction of the plants shall be made the basis of further discussion. —A and N.Z. O.A.