GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 2 May 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ■ (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.)

c v ... ■ LONDON, April 30. Butter is firm, but'quiet. New Zealand choicest 170 s, exceptional 1745; Australian 160 sto 1625; Danish 188 s, Siberian is arriving in increasing quantities, and supplies are expected to reach 50 per cent above last season’s; selling well at 144 a to 148 s. Cheese is dfetll. New Zealand 965; Austraian 945.

Obituary; Sir Richard Butler, for mer Premier of South Australia.

There was a brilliant wedding at St. Margaret’s, Westminster,’between Sir Roger Wethered, the golf if, and the elder, daughter of Lord- Charles Cavendish Bentinck.

LONDON, May 1 . With : the Church Assembly’s approval an Overseas Settlement Council has been formed is order that, all the moral and material forces of the Church of Engine! at home and abroad may bo placed at the disposal of official and other organisations engaged .in migration. The. council will, if needed, help migrants financially, provide’ for their recepton and after care anil supply letters of introduction. It was announced at USo League of Nations Union irfteting at London that Colonel David Davies, a member of the House of Commons, , had promised £6,500, spread over 6£- years, to bo devoted mainly to the work of the union in the Dominions. Brewers are holding the usual colonial wine anil barley competitions on 31st October. Entries close on 26th October. OTTAWA, May 1.

After 24 days’ debate, ending in an all-night session, the Budget was passed in the House of Commons. Canada will be represented at the seventh annual sossion of the International Labour Conference at Geneva oil May 19, — according to Mr Murdock, Minister of Labour.

BERLIN, May 1. Between thirty and forty persons fjre reported killed and many injured through Tie derailment of the Eydtkulinen express. ROME, May 1. Pinedo lias a.rived at Charbar, Baluchistan. TOKIO, May 1. The President Van Buren went aground off Suina. near Kobe. If is hoped to refloat her at full tide to-mor-row,prewiring. ‘. .. •r'"’-. .During May Day demonstration in Osaka, 30,000 workers, including Koreans, paraded the streets under close vigilance'of the police, bub it terminated without a serious clash.