GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 397, 11 August 1921, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

LONDON, August .0. The Railway Decontrol Bill was. read the third time in the House of Commons. The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent says the forests! Land, Timber, and Railway Company, a British concern,'' lias purchased Renner's Hamburg tanning and dye. works, paying 5750 marks for each 1000-mark share, a. total of 14,000,000 marks. The Germans drew the bulk of their raw materials from Argentina, where the forestal Company overwhelmed Renners. The Forestal Company’s operations ate •world-wide. The company has a capital of more than five millions sterling. The first memorial service ever held in the .crypt of Parliament is to be bold on Thursday-for Mr Wintrihgham, who died •suddenly in the House of Commons. Ah’ Hughes returned to-day after a visit lo Wales,- where he met the fiercest rainstorms. he' has , ever encountered, almost blocking the roads against motors. He experts io visit Southampton on Friday to launch seaplanes. .He will visit Bradford and Sheffield next week, and will probably launch (ho steamer Barrow. Four days prior lo embarking nr. Toulon will be spent in .France, ■ ■ •

Labour members of the House of Commons introduced an Illegitimacy Bill, proposing drastic, amendments of the law, including a provision that affiliation applications may be made before a child’s birth, a. maximum weekly maintenance of £2 a.nd a father may be ordered lo contribute towards his ■ child’s apprenticeship and special, vedttoar.idn. Maintenance may be ordered ’ beyond the ago of sixteen if the child is physically or mentally deformed. In the alternative the Court, .may order tho payment of a lump sum. A child may be legitimised by the subsequent marriage of the . parents. The, Board of Agriculture return for 1920 shows that the farmed area in England and Wales under crops or grass- was 26,139,000 .acres, a decrease of 363,000 acres. ’lire area under wheal was 1,978,000 acres, an, increase of 103,000. The area under barley declined 202,000 acres, and that under oats 137.000, 'The'"live stock figures .'were: .Horses,, 1,384,000, an increase, of 18,000; cattle, 5,515.000,’ a decrease of. 31,000; sheep, 13.306.000, an increase of 423.0Q0; pigs, 2.505.000, an increase of 511.000.—A. and N.Z, ruble. ',

Received- August 11, 2.15 p.m. LONDON, August. 10. Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson left £26,876,

Harland and .Wolff have begun the -construction of a'(-30,000 ton steamer for (he Uoltand-Amcriqa service, the biggest- ship since 1914. The. vessel js to be named the Statendam.—A.,, and N.Z. cable.

LONDON, August 10. Arrangement s’ have been- made to erect a memorial at VilliersTiretonnoau costing the Commonwealth £IOO,OOO. Ten acres lbvcTiU’cady been purchased for the purpose.-'-’ It- is- now reported that tho site is entirely iip bit*,, being inaccessible, and off the high road‘and invisible for ordinary passers-by.: Mr Shepherd, who has scon the .Ideality, reports against it. Mr Hughes pioposes'- to inspect it, himself; meanwhile ail development has been delayed. When asked if-Australia would be represented,at (lie 1/uigue of Nations' meeting at Geneva in September, -Mr lltighos. stated that' lie was endeavouring to ~provide, a delegate. but. mine was in view y0t.... ■ He. ii-dded: “(t certainly -won’t bo a Minister.” -A.-and N.Z,(fable.