GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

♦ Fresx Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 4. Infrequent steamerfservice from Scotland has caused a shortage of food at Skye and acute distress, especially on the east of the islands, where no steamer has arrived since mid-December;—A. and N.Z. Cable. Rumour is being revived that Captain Hon. Frederick Edward Quest, M.P., will be s appointed Governor-General of Australia, and will bo raised to the peerage.— A and N.Z. Cable. (Received April 5j at 7.55 p.m.) The Indian Kralifat delegation has made a protest to the King against the deportation by the Allies from Malta of the great divine Maulana Mahmed, of Mecca, the theological seminary who is the highest religions dignitary in Islam after the Khalif.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PARIS, April 3. Eastertide brought a stream of British mourners to the military cemeteries France and Flanders.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BRUSSELS, April 4. The Derniere Henre states that the British and Belgian Governments haye signed a contract by which Belgium will receive on favourable terms 24,000 tons of Australian raw zinc. Delivery will be completed within two yeara—A. and N.Z. Cable. • RIO DE JANEIRO, April 3. (Received April 5, at 8.15 p.m.) Preliminary work has begnn in the construction of irrigation works, to cost 50,000,000 dollars,' in the drought-stricken section of North-western Brazil. It is intended to extend railroads to the district. The work is expected to be completed in five years.—A. and N.Z. Cable. PEKING, April 4. (Received April 5, at 10.50 p.m.) Telegraphic communication has been established between Peking and Petrograd, Archangel, Novocherkassk, and Astrakhan. Railway employers at Harbin have assumed the management of the Chinese Eastern railway with the announced object of restoring order and removing the railroads' management from political control.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, April 3. (Received April 5, at 8.45 p.m.) Despatches from Dawson state that the Yukon Development League is petitioning the Canadian Government to abolish the royalty on gold, because the mining industry is threatened by the depreciation of the purchasing . power of gold. The league also asks the Government to amend the placer mining laws in order to permit of extensive prospecting of lower-grade creeks and valleys, and to induce gold dredgintr companies to extend operations. ST. JOHN (New Brunswick), April 3. The Maritime Board of Trade has announced the appointment of a committee to confer with the Governments of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island for the creation of an organic union of the three States in order to effect incroK.sed influence in the councils of the Dominion Government. The aim i 3 to secure a progressive internal development and more economical administration of the Government departments.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ' (Received April 5, at 10.50 p.m.) The N*w York Times correspondent in Mexico City telegraphs that reports from Guatemala state that a reign of terror exists in that country. Many students who advocated union of control of the American Republics have been arrested and some have been executed. This led to a revolt against the Government, which resulted in rioting at Giannini.—A. and N.Z. Cable.