NEWS OF THE WORLD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10715, 8 October 1920, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WORLD

GABLES IN BRIEF By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright The following tenuis team has been !selected to represent New South Wales 'in New Zealand in December: —M. Marsh (.captain), X. Reach, S. Henderson, F. Reach. A. "Watt, and 11. Utz. I Tho Wheat Bill passed its third •reading in the New South Wala; Legislative Asppmbly, after a stubborn fight by the Progressives to secure tho world's parity. The Government members emphatically opposed the parity, and tho consequent increase in the prico of bread. Mr Storey (Premier) has been approached by tho Premier of South Australia, who is seeking an immediate conference of Premiers to deal with tho world's parity difficulty. A London "Times" message states that the unemployed ia Coventry have formed a local Soviet, which demands tho control of tho local factories and tho maintenance of all who are willing to work. Processions are visiting the workshops, endeavouring to enlarge the movement. A London message states that Mr W. E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, the American temperanco advocate, was refused a hearing at the Reading Town Hall. f'Stink bornts" were thrown in, and huge crowds outside tried to rush the hall. Detectives escorted Mr Johnson from tho building; The Maheno, which is leaving Sydney to-day, will take forty passengers, who will join the Marama at "Wellington. They were compelled to take the passag© via Auckland owing to tho cutting out of the Moana. A London message states that there are twenty-six entries for tho amateur (billiards championship, including Fry, ;the holder, and iivo ex-champions. Hooper will meet Christey, the exchampion, in the first round on February 13th._ ' The trial of twenty-eight members of the so-called "Vengeance Society'' at Cairo, for sedition and plotting against the Allied authorities, resulted in the conviction of twenty-five of the accused. It is reported in New York that R. TV. Welsh, the' English promoter, has signed a contract with Levinsky for a twenty-rounds fight with Joe Beckett within three months after the Levinaky contest with Carpentier. Levinsky, in tho contests with Beckett, will get a guarantee of 50,000 dollars if ho has defeated Carpentier, 25,000 dollars it ho draws, and 15,600 dollars if Carpentier defeats him. Lord Forster has been sworn in as ! Governor-General of Australia, and had a fine reception. Sir R. C. Munro(Ferguson has sailed for London by the jOrsova from Perth. If .The Federal Senate defeated the "bill i fixing the entertainment tax at 3s. "Mr Hughes declined to comment on the. 'matter. Five hundred Socialist delegates are at Carlsbad, representing over a million German workmen. Czecho-Slovakia is considering whether to adhere to the Moscow Internationale. Unions representing 380,000 German miners in Czecho-Slovakia have rejected it. The Australian Press Agency understands that the Peninsular and Orient line hopes to maintain a regular fortnightly "mail: jscrvico to Australia, com-, mencing at the New Year. Lady Davidson struck tho first penny at the Sydney Mint of a coinage of £IO,OOO in Australian bronze. Lloyd's representative reports that the fire on the Bismarck (the biggest Vessel in the world) at Hamburg, destroyed only one room above tho en-gine-room.