GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 18 November 1925, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEAIS OF INTEREST. BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. HALIFAX, Nov. 17. Nine men of the United States coast guard steamer Alorrill were drowned near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, when returning to the steamer in a small boat, which capsized in the storm-lashed waters of the harbour half a mile from the shore. LONDON, Nov. 16. It is authoratively stated that the War Office has placed army meat contracts with Australia principally, New Zealand secondarily and south Africa supplementarily. Australia’s supplies will be mainly beef and mutton, New Zealand’s mainly mutton and lamb, and South Africa’s only small supplies of beef. All supplies are deliverable at twenty or thirty British depots weekly or monthly, according to instructions. SYDNEY, Nov. 17. When the Assembly resumed to-da.y the Premier (Mr J. T. Lang), in reply to a question, said that four members, Messrs. Bavin, Lysaght, Afain and Sanders, had refused to take the increase in their salaries. The Assembly read a third time a Rill to replace proportional representation for single electorates. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. _ According to the forecast of the Agriculture Department the world’s wheat crop will be 300.000,000 bushels in excess of last year’s. QUEIBED, Nov. 16. The provincial convention of .the Canadian Labour Party unanimously passed a resolution forbidding the admission of Communists into the ranks of the party, and providing for the expulsion of such members who are known to possess Communistic tendencies. Another resolution condemned Fascism. PARIS, Nov. 16. The Council of Ambassadors has forwarded a note to Berlin expressing the hope that the evacuation of Cologne will ho complete by January 31 or at the latest by Feburary 20. The council holds out hope of the early withdrawal of the inter-A Hied control committee in Berlin. BERLIN, Nov. 16. Hie Nationalist conference, attended by two thousand party representatives from all parts of Germany, resolved to wage a ruthless fight against the Locarno pact.