GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 May 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. 3Y CAJiliE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY RIGHT GENEVA, May 4. The Belgian ex-Premier, M. Carton tie Wiart, opened tire League ol' Nations Conference on the traffic in arms and munitions, at which 43 nations are represented, including jour nonmembers (the United States, Germany, ttgypt and Turkey). After formal business had been transacted the conference adjourned until to-morrow. v SOLDIER, BUNS AMOK. ROME, May 4. A soldier named Loren zone ran amok at the Pi,stoie. barracks. He seized a rifle, killed four sleeping comrades and wounded three others before he was arrested. TRANSPORT STRIKE IN PARIS. PARIS, May 4. The transport workers of the capital, including the trams, omnibuses arid electric railways, declared a general strike as a protest against the refusal of the managements not to penalise May Day absentees. EMPIRE PRODUCE. LONDON, May 4. The women’s unionist organisation is arranging a widespread sale on Empire Day of sample boxes of Empire products, ranging in price from five shillings to five, guineas. The contents include Now Zealand honey and Australian soap.

AUSTRALIAN WOOL SALES SYDNEY. May 5. The National Wool Council wPI meet in Melbourne on Wednesday to consider the question of the suspension ql the wool sales throughout Australia owing to the general sclacknoss of the demand on both the local and London markets.