GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 November 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. a* CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PARIS, Nov. 17. The Socialists decided to withdraw the capital levy counter proposal, thus assuring M. Painleve of a. majority in the Chamber. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. The New Orleans fire is under control. The damage is estimated at two million dollars. The fire spread rapidly over a five biock section on the waterfront. LONDON, Nov. 18. The total expenditure on the Singapore base so far was £117,000, said Air W. C. Bridgeman (First Lord of the Admiralty) in the House of Commons. No definite money had been offered by other parts of the Empire except £250,000 from Hong Kong, which was being drawn upon as required. The Straits Settlement liad bought the land for £146,000. OTTAWA, Nov. 17. Mr Melville, the millionaire and a member of the Pacific Shipowners’ Association. speaking at the National Economic Conference at Winnipeg, declared that the Pacific was wresting the trade supremacy from the Atlantic. Canada’s exports to the Orient jumped from 5,500,000 dollars to 46,000.000 dollars in a decade, and the Vancouver ocean lines grew from five to fifty-four millions. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. A one hundred million dollar loan to the Italian Government, ensuring financial support for the restoration of the gold standard in Italy, has been arranged through a group of American banks headed by the J. P. Alorgan Company. ADELAIDE, Nov. 19. The sixteen firemen from the Baradine, who refused to work during the voyage from Fremantle to Adelaide, were sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment. LONDON, Nov. 18. The trial of the twelve Communists was resumed. The cases for the prosecution closed and Sir Henry- Slesser opened the defence. He submitted that the documents or extracts from the defendants’ newspapers cited by the prosecution did not constitute seditions libels, and the defendants did not conspire to publish them. CAIRO, Nov. 18.

The Government has issued a warning that it will forcibly prevent a meeting at Parliament House or elsewhere of deputies who intended to hold a meeting of Parliament outside Parliament Buildings on November 25. A communique warns the deputies that they ceased to have any representative character when Parliament dissolved oil March 25, and adds that the new electoral law will he promulgated when the elections rendered necessary bv the decree of March 25 are held. LONDON, Nov. 18. The Galloway by-election caused by the death of Vice-Admiral Sir A. J. Henniken Hughan (Conservative) resulted as follows: Capt. Streatfield (Conservative) 1P,846 Major, C. R. Dudgeon (Liberal) 9,918 Mr John Mitchell (Labour.) ... 4,207 (The polling at the 1924 election was: Vice-Admiral Sir A. J. Henniken Hughan (Conservative) 12,268; Major C R Dudgeon (Liberal) 10,851. MELBOURNE, Nov. 19. A fire at St. Kilda- destroyed the men’s baths. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. , , A fire at Biunswiclc destroyed the large joinery factory of H. G. Wfitson. Several adjacent buildings and several private properties also suffered. The damage runs into s everal thousands of pounds. LONDON, Nov. 18. Charged with the murder of Captain Clews, master of the Melita, while" the vessel was at Antwerp, Towers, the first engineer, was found guilty but insane, and was ordered to be detained during His Majesty’s pleasure.. The evidence showed that after disputes on the Melita suspicion rested on the accused of making a report to headquarters about the captain behind the latter’s back. PEKIN, Nov. 18. ' Investigation into the Anglo-Italian Legation guard cafe brawl revealed that it was riot n s serious as a„t first represented. Fifteen participated on each side. The English were as much to blame as the Italians. The latter snatched the Britons’ bayonets from their belts and used them when the fracas commenced. The casualties were not serious, all the Britons, with the exception of one, having returned to duty.