LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1587, 12 June 1920, Page 5

LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICAN IN GOLF FINAL. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] LAust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 10. In the semi-final of the golf championship, the American, R. A. Gardner, beat Scott by two up, and will meet G. Tolley in the final. thoxjsaxd MEN IDT.I - , SYDNEY, Last night. Owing to a dispute between the management and the moulders at the Lithgow Blast Furnaces, the management has closed the works, rendering a thousand men idle. PERSHING A “HARK HORSE.” NEW YORK. June 10. Chicago telegrams state that indications point to General Pershing as a “dark horse” candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination. Dissention over Hiram Johnson and Major-General Wood is growing. The League of Nations issue threatens to split the Republican convention. Johnson and Borah demand a flat rejection of the Versailles Treaty, and Crane favours ratification with minor reservations. Senators Reed and Smoot propose a compromise, approving of Senators resisting ratification, without the agreement, in order to protect the liberty and independence of Americans.

WOOL SALE PROBLEMS.

LONDON, June 10

Before Hon. W. Watt resigned, the chairman of the Colonial Wool Importers’ Association wrote him, pointing out that if public sales were resumed in Australia, competition for the next two years, at any rate, would be much Owing to the great difficulties connected with freight, finance and exchanges, comparatively few English buyers, and still fewer Continental b vers, were strong enough financially to purchase so far ahead of their actual requirements, and even these few would operate in Australia only at o rices leaving a very full margin for contingencies. The Association considers that an ideal method of disposing of the wool would be to confine die sales entirely to the English markets, but as a considerable number ci growers in Australia would like to ‘-y offering their wools there, the Association suggests that growers be left entirely free to offer by public auction ; n Australia, or to consign to London, whichever they prefer.

WORDS, NOT DEEDS.

NEW YORK, June 11

A Chicago message states that the Republican Party, in a plank favouring a liberal foreign policy, with a firm adherence to American rights, together with respect for the rights of others, condemned President Wilson for asking for a mandate over Armenia, adding that the Party would hereafter oppose a mandate for any countx-y in Europe or Asia. The Republican Party stands for an agreement among the nations to preserve the peace of the world, and believes that international association must be based xipon international justice, and must provide methods which shall maintain and rule the public right by the development of law and the decision of impartial courts, which shall secure an instant international conference whenever peace is threatened.

PRESIDENTIAL SCRAMBLE

NEW YORK, June 11.

The “New York Times” Chicago corresppndent reports that the Republican party approves of Senate’s refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Other planks in the Republican platform include no strikes against the Government, and private ownership of railways.