GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17634, 26 May 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright.

c . „ LOND ON, May 22. Sir George Perley, the Canadian High Commissioner, m a speech at Dudley, welcomed preference in trade, and hoped the Empire would become self-contained, and that the dominions would claim'a voice in foreign affairs.

In the House of Commons Mr Monta<m, Secretary of State for India, said the Government was appointing a currency silver 1331011 investigate the price of

Heath, Peterson, and Doust have survived; the fourth round of the Surrey tenbarti,,B ° ,a «*

i 7 , . N ? !W YORK. May 22. I?? 6 'winners of the American regatta on the Seme, intend to compete at he national championship regatta on Lake Qransigarnon Worcester, Massachusetts m August.—A. and ]ST.Z. Cable , *, MELBOUENE, ,Mav 24. ■ Corporal Poulson has been coWnrtted for trial on a charge of manslaughter in shooting Private _ Emmett, a miliW prisoner under Ins guard on the Mel-bourne-Sydney train, on April 25 m . jnf SYDNEY, May 25. (Received May 26, at 0.20 a.m.) ihere were tflie usual fiag-flyine- md •> number of public ftmctims; otherwise Empire Day celebrations were less elaborate than m previous years. The forth coming peace celebrations somewhat overshadowed the occasion.