CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 9

CONDENSED CABLES.

A Sydney cablegram states that the former warship Psyche, which, was at one time oil the New Zealand station, sank in Port Stephens, where she was lo be used as a timber storage hulk. The Sydney City Council, on a puiel\ party vote, by 15 to 11. elected Alderman Parrick Stokes as Lord Mayor. The Royal Commission in Sydney which has been inquiring into the alleged corruption in the City Council, has concluded its sittings and will probably present a report to the Government at the end of the The case in which the Sydney Daily Telegraph proceeded against Broadcasters, Ltd., to prevent its broadcasting of news from’ tlie Telegraph Mas again called oil in the Equity Court, when it was stateu that a settlement had been reached. A Svdney message states dial the aerial Derby'was'flown iii bright, sunny weather and Mas won by Captain I‘ollett, M'ho fic'M 37 miles in 20min. 50 4-ssoes. A Stockholm message states that Arne Borg claims a world’s record for swimming 500 metres free style in 6min 29 3-ssees. The London Daily Express’s lobbyist states that the prominence given lo Empire affairs will be a distinctive feature of the King’s speech. It will announce a policy of constant consultation with the Dominions through the High Commissioners, and that Britain will not declare judgment, on the Geneva protocol til! the Dominions’ views are ascertained; also the restoration of preference on the. lines agreed to by the Imperial Conference in 1923.