GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 31 October 1921, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.)

LONDON, Oct. 23

Trustees and executors are. inundating bookmakers with claims for repayment tinder the recent, decision. A thousand sterling has already been refunded, and bookmakers are consequently claiming taxation refunds. The Daily 'Express understands that a member of the Jockev Club proposes In introduce a Rill in the Lords including cheque payments for bets trovn the 1805 Act. . . The Government will shortly issue a 20,000,000 3 nor cent. loan to assist local authorities, at 52, yielding subscribers £5 15s 4d per cent. Xho unusual number ol youths entering the schools of agriculture opening for settlers in Canada and Australia is ail moling increasing attention. The. Imperial Challenge Shield prizes were presented by Colonel Prcnnoll. There were 820 senior teams entered and 592 junior, of which New Zealand gained 139th and 48th respectively of ‘die 124 prizes. Australia won 41. A ballot of the engineering and shipbuilding unions resulted in a majority of 22,833 in favour of the. withdrawal of the Ministry munitions bonus, thus averting the danger of a strike. The engineers’ ballot accepted the employers’ proposal to abolish the war bonus in three cuts,

The Daily Express Geneva correspondent statos’lhat a strange case, of sacrilege followed by a- tragic nemesis occurred at Wald shut, on the Swiss-Ger-man frontier. Groups of young workmen employed at an electrical factory pulled down a wooden statue of Christ from a cross on the roadway and replaced it head downwards amid blaspremous shouts, Two days later the ringleader fell into the machinery of the factory head foremost and _ was killed. His comrades, panic-stricken, confessed to the sacrilege and were arrested.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.

The Standard Oil Company have, increased the price of petrol one and two emits a, gallon in several States. The wholesale price of automobile petrol is now 22 to 23 rents.

Gold imports into the United States since Ist. .January total nearly 700,000,000 dollars, whereof France and Britain each sen I 160,000,000, Germany 16,000,000, India 29,000,000, Australia 11,000,000, and New Zealand 2.000,000. MADRID. Oct. 29,

In the Chamber the Minister for War announced that the .Moroccan advance is encountering stiff resistance by large Moorish forces, equipped with artillery and machine guns captured from Spaniards during last summer. HONOLULU, Oct, 20.

The. newspaper .Tiji slates that a Tokio despatch declares the Russian Soviet called on international conference at Irkutsk simultaneous with the Washington conference, and invited China, Korea, Siam, and India to send delegates. The Korean and Shantung delegates are reported to he en route already. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 30.

Thft Politikon's Riga. correspondent states that Tchitcherin sent n note to Britain protesting against English warships at, Vladivostok landing olheors and men belonging to Wmngcl's old army, stating that he. regarded the action as hostile, to Russia and the Far Eastern republic.