CABLES IN BRIEF

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10639, 12 July 1920, Page 6

CABLES IN BRIEF

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrlgfht Tlie British Government has bought 9000 tons of Danish butter at 245 s per cwt, landed in the United Kingdom, delivery to be made in July and gustA message from Cairo states that Masspnd, who attempted to assassinate the Premier of Egypt last month, has been executed. A Swiss 25 million dollar loan, offered in the New York market at par, at eight' per cent, interest, was abI sorbed within 24 hours. The Department of Labour has announced that there were 3374 lockouts in the United States in 1919, affecting more than four million workers. Representative Ueliara, speaking in the Diet, demanded to know why the Japanese Government did not insist upon the lawful rights of the Japanese in America. Viscount Uchida (Foreign Minister) replied that lie regretI ted the anti- Japanese agitation with extreme anxiety, but. the Government was taking the utmost measures to j cope with the situation. I The United States Department pt Commerce has announced that 2241 vessels, aggregating 3,860,474 gross tons, were built in the United States in the year ending June 30th, 1920. It is announced from New York that Archbishop Mannix has appointed De Valera Professor of High Mathematics at Maynooth College, Ireland. The law case, Richard Frank Wootton v. J. Joel has been settled the Woottons receiving a percentage of the stakes on horses ridden by Frank in 1913 to the full amount of Wootton's claim, each paying his own costs. Mr L. A. Taschereau (Minister for Public Works and Labour) has been sworn in as Premier of the Quebec province, vice Sir Loroer Gouin, who resigned. According to a dispatch received _ in Honolulu from Tokio a mass meeting in the prefecture of Hinoshima passea a resolution protesting against the anti-Japanese movement in California. A copy is being sent to the American Charge d'Affaires requesting tfiat he will transmit it to Washington. Lord Dewar, in a speech in Liverpool, stated that Sir Thomas Lipton had left a large sum in his will to ensure that the American Cup will come back to England if ho fails to win it this year. A Melbourne cable message states that over three hundred nominations have already been submitted to_ tho Labour party's executive by aspirants for appointment to the Legislative Council.

It is estimated that £10,000,000 h.i« been directly lost to Australia as the result of the Broken Hill strike, being the approximate sum that would have been received for the lead ,silver and zinc oversea if the miners were not idle. The wages lost by employees are estimated a.t .£7.500,000. A Melbourne message states that a non-party meeting of a number of representatives appointed a denum/Mon to Mr Hughes requesting the Cabinet to place £300,000 on the Estimates for the purpeso of proceeding with tho work of the Federal Capital at Canberra. "...

The Victorian Wheat Commission is making available a quantity of fair average quality wheat for export to Africa and the East at 16s per bushel, a. record price for Australia. The British Select Committee on national expenditure seriously criticised the Government's depots at Slough. Lord St. Omer urged that the Ministry of Munitions should cease as a spending depaitmcnt, and drew attention to the fact.that the Ministry has twenty-two millions for stores on the current Estimates. A London message states that Lord Burnham has taken one thousand shares in the Billiss Australian farms scheme.

A Washington message states:—Secretary Houston announces that tho United States will be unofficially represented at tho Brussels Financial Conference. Three representatives will . be appointed to observe tho procedings, but the United States cannot be bound by any deliberations. Tho Japanese Diet has received, a petition, signed by six hundred Koreans, asking that Korea be given representation in the Diet. The Melbourne gas-workers have empowered the Trades Hall disputes committee to negotiate for the settlement of the strike.