GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 July 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT LONDON, July 14. Spot rubber has declined to Old. The rnboer share market has lost its melodramatic element. There is still much activity, but there is more selling than buying. Prices have slightly declined all round. PARIS, July 15. Runners in relays carried a darning torch and passed it from hand to hand two hundred miles from Verdun to the tomb of the unknown soldier in Paris. BERLIN, July 14. The Government encountered Parliamentary snags over the ratification of the Anglo-German, commercial treaty, which was referred to a committee. The German Nationals demanded an exhaustive report on British Imperial preferences. The committee also recommended the Government to negotiate with Britain with a view to extending the agreement to examine the colonies. BERLIN, July 14. A fire in the stables adjoining the ALona i aeec-ourse spread so rapidly that the stable hands were unable to free all the animals, and fourteen out of fifty racehorses were burned to death. , NEW YORK, July 14. A message from Salem, Oregon, states that following on a reported protest in Tokio. Governor Pierce is investigating the action of a mob in Toledo, Oregon, in forcing a score of Japanese mill workers to leave the town last Sunday. The citizens complained that the Pacific Spruce Corporation imported labourers, paying them 2 dollars 40 cents a da.v, while whites were previously paid 3 dollars to 4'dollars a dav for the same work. LONDON, JULY 14. The Morning Post’s Cairo correspondent reports that no Arabic newspapers will appear on Thursday as a protest aaginst the new press law under which publication of untrue reports is punishable by imprisonment of the editor and the suppression of the newspapers concerned. The Government encountered Parlia mcntary snags over the ratification of the Anglo-German commercial treaty, which was referred to a committee, in which German nationals demanded an exhaustive report of British Imperial preference. The committee also recommended the Government to negotiate with Britain with a view to extending the agreement to ex-German colonies.