CABLE SUMMARY.

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1923, Page 5

CABLE SUMMARY.

It is unofficially stated that the New South Wales coal owners decided the chief conditions which the miners must guarantee to observe prior to a resumption of work, are a stoppage of strikes, managers to have the right to select men required, and to dismiss men without being questioned. A meeting of colonists of Fiji on I Friday evening at Suva, the Mayor preI siding, passed -a newdution -supporting | the action of the elected members of the Council protesting against the unI constitutional action of tiie Secretary ’of State. A Committee of Constitutional Right was appointed. If no re- , ply is received soon, the elected mem- : bers may resign. i Mr Dittman, of Auckland University ! College, has been appointed headmaster | of the Sydney Grammar School. I At London the Merchant Shipping ! Advisory Committee’s report regarding • life-saving appliances on passenger steamships, recommends that boats sufficient for all aboard should be carried, • as far as possible without encumberI ing the decks, or impeding the prompt t handling of lifeboats. Where this cannot. be done, the deficiency in accommo1 dation should be met by means of light | buoyant apparatus. In any case, | motor boats, with wireless, should be provided for 21 per cent, of those ! aboard. I At the Anzac Day luncheon at Lon- ! don, Sir lan Hamilton remarked: “As | to this Anzac Day anniversary, poets, ■ novelists, journalists, historians, sol- ' diers and jud #3 had vied oue with an other in ventilating the story. Now j there is a sequel.” He referred to the : famous 5.0.8 (Lloyd George’s appeal i regarding the Near East crisis) sent | out in September last year from Downing Street to Australia. “That was th“ /wizard’s touch indeed. Next it revenlt ed the Diggers of the Antipodes strip- ' ped to the buff. Lord, how magnificently those clean potatoes peeled. Entirely apart from the merits or demerits of the S.O.S. itself, the quick, unques- , tioning response sent a thrill of deI light through the whole Empire, ; through the biggest combine since Noah’s Ark. “Hats off to Diggers!” cried the world.’’ He was a keen ad- ■ vocate of a Ministry of Defence and an Imperial General Staff, in name only, but in personnel. A new telephone scheme begins today in England, whereby subscribers may ring ’ the exchanges between five in the evening and midnight, and learn the weather expected in their district until six the following evening. Rural subscribers will receive the information i free, but others will pay the call fee.