GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18051, 27 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

MARKET FOR AMERICAN WOOL. NATIONAL AGENCY APPOINTED. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. NEW YORK, September 24. The Kansas Farm Bureau Federation of the Middle West states tliat it has resolved to appoint a committee to devise means of handling growers' wool through <a national agency, and selling direct to the manufacturers. The new agoncy's first task will bo to find a market for more than 30,000,000 pounds of wool, which the growers accumulated last winter in the Middle West and Texas.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DROP IN CORN RATES. NEW YORK, September 24. For the first time since 1917 corn sold at Chicago for less than a dollar a bushel, December lots being quoted at 99g cents. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE METRIC SYSTEM. NEW YORK, September 24. The clqsdng session of the Chambers of Commerce Conference at Toronto on September 23 passed a resolution recommending that a date should be fixed for the easier adoption of the metric system of measurement throughout the Empire. The representatives from New Zealand, India, South Africa, 1 the West Indies, England, and Canada thanked the chairman (Lord Desborough).—A. and Cable.

ANGLO-AMERICAN TRADE

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, September 24. (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The United States Chamber of Commerce will entertain the group of Englisn delegates who attended the Toronto Congress. Important British and American trade matters will be discussed. , The delegates will stay in Washington till October 7.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S MISSION. LONDON, September 24. General Sir William Birdwood will leave on October 7 for Belgium aad France in order to inspect memorials, and to inquire into the management of military cemeteries and exhumations and reburials in Belgium, of which there are an average of 70 weekly; there is approximately a similar number in France. The lists of missing have been already reduced by several thousands.

ZAMORA'S PRISONER RELEASED. MEXICO CTTY, September 24. (Received Sept. 26, at 11.5 p.m.) Mr Johnson, who has been finally released by the bandit Zamora, has announced that he is returning to Jalisco, •where he owns a cattle ranch.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

MR CHURCHILL'S ARREST DEMATffDED. ijj. LONDON, September 25. *? (Received Sept. 26, at 11.5 p.m.) A conference of the Scottish Labour Party unanimously passed a resolution demanding Mr Winston Churchill's arrest and impeachment for his actions regarding Russia.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

FATAL AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 11.5 p.m.) A pilot and four passengers, among whom there -were -women, were killed through an aeroplane nose-diving and crashing at Hayes during a pleasure flight from the Northolm aerodrome. The fifth passenger, a little girl, -was badly injured. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

HOSPITAL SATURDAY FUND. LONDON, September 26, (Received Sept. 26, at 11.55 p.m.) The Hospital Saturday Fund, the League of Mercy, British Red Cross, and the Order of Saint John, are combining in an appeal for contributions throughout the week beginning on October 9 from every part of England and Wales towards the sum of £1,000,000 annually required for all phases of health work from infant welfare to ex-servico men. Special matinees are being organised, and it is proposed to ask each Boy Scout to give a penny and each of London's 20,000 police sixpence.—A, and N.Z. Cable.

BRITISH ARMY APPOINTMENTS. LONDON, September 25. (Received _ Sept. 27, at 0.45 a.m.) T£e following appointments are announced:—Earl Govan succeeds Lord Rawlinson as Comroander-in-Chief at Aldershot; Major-general Sir' Charles Barington becomes Commander-in-Cliief of the Black Sea army; Lieutenant-general Sir Philip Chetwode succeeds Major-general Sir C H. Harington as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Lieutenant-general Sir Alexander Godley succeeds Lieutenantgeneral Sir Philip Clietwode as military secretary to the Secretary of State for War.—Renter.

COTTON STRIKE COLLAPSING. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 0.45 a.m.) There are indications that the strike among the cotton spinners at Oldham has begun to collapse.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

DISASTROUS FIRE IN AEROPLANE WORKS. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 0.45 a.m.) A disastrous fire occurred in the Martynside aeroplane works at Woking, and 127 planes are reported to have been destroyed.—Reuter.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. LONDON, September 24. (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The Government has decided to continue summer time, which should have lapsed on September 27, until October 25.—Renter (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The Rubber Growers' Association has circularised the producers of plantation rubber, urging 25 per cent, reduction in the out/put in order to check the accumulation of stocks and to stabilise the market. Indian tea growers are taking similar action owing to the accumulation of stocks.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 11.5 p.m.) It is announced that there will be no Beecham opera in London during the coming _ winter and spring. Beecham's association with Coveiit Garden has also terminated.—A. and N.Z. Cable WASHINGTON, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 11.55 p.m.) The Army Department will auction £3,000,000 of Government-owned low grade combing carding wool for the carpet trade on October 11. The authorities, feeling that Irish picketers might heckle the British Ambassador's wife, who was returning to Washington on the Mauritania, made arrangements to take her off on a Government cutter to avoid the crowd on the pier Lady Geddes is returning from England with her children, who will be placed in American schools. The British mission .o Massachusetts to celebrate the Pilgrims' landing recently was subjected to considerable annoyance by women members and the friends of Irish freedom—A. and N.Z. Cable. PARIS, September 26 (Received Sept. 27, at 0.45 j> m ) The importation of 10,000,000 quintals of wheat will suffice to meet the shortage in France's 1920 harvest.— A. and N Z Cable.