GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 2 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

* AUSTRALIAN CHINESE CONSUL. tT EtiECTBIC TELEORAPH. —COPTUIOHT. PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received November 2, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 1. Hwang-Yung-Lian has been gazetted Consul-General for China in Melbourne for the Commonwealth. This is probably Mr Yung Liang Hwang, formerly Chinese Counsel-Gen-eral in New Zealand* A SALUTARY SENTENCE. Received November 2, 10.35 a.m. PARIS, November 1. Romillicr, secretary of the Amalgamated Trade Unions at Tinisteere, his been sentenced to three years' imprisonment and fined 1000 francs for inciting to theft and urging soldiers to insubordination during the recent dear food riot. AUSTRALIAN SHALE OIL. LONDON, Oct. 31. tested the Commonwealth Oil Company's shale oil and pronounced it suitable for use on the Australian cruisers and also for internal combustion propelling engines and submarines. FIFTY YEARS AFTER. Received November 2, 8.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. A House of Representatives Committee has opened an inquiry regarding the connection of ex-Secretary of State Foster E. H. Conger, late Minister in China, with the payment of £70,000 to the heirs of General Ward, who was killed in the Chinese rebellion of 1862. The money, it is alleged, came out of the Boxer indemnity fund. It is stated that great influence was brought to bear on Prince Ching (the late Prime Minister) to allow a 40-years-old claim to be paid from the recently-created fund.