GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 13 July 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFST&IGHT, (Australian-Is.Z. Q.&. and Renter.) MELBOURNE, July 12. In acej&rdance with, the policy of economy the Goveryunent is stopping the construction of. Canberra. The Imprest Sujjply Bill passed the : Senate. Senator Givens has l>e.en elect* ed Pjjosident. The captain and one of the crew ©Jr.. rthe wrecked Mjora were picked up tiy a Ifewport tvg f .' The vessel shipped a heavy sea and sank in fifteen minutes. SYDNEY, July 12. The Iron Workers' Association has Twiected Mr Hughes' shipbuilding progosals. According, to the liaily Telegraph's correspondent, who recently spent several months travelling in all parts of: New Zealand, the anti-shouting law is practically ignored, its only effect being to provide plain clothes constables with additional opportunities of getting pleasantly intoxicated at the expense of the ccwntry. i He mentions the manoeuvres employed to get round the law, adding that such snanoeuvres are rarely necessary, and a shout is usually transacted in tho old time way. The correspondent says: "I soon found that if I observed the law I only made myself conspicuous." PERTH, July 12. A public meeting in the Town Hall by a large majority rejected a motion in favor of anti-shouting legislation for the currency of the war.