GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18198, 19 March 1921, Page 10

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

?re«« Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

PARIS, March 17. University students at Grenoble made a demonstration against the visit of M. Caillaux for the purpose of lecturing under the auspices of the League of the Rights of Man.—A. and N.Z. Cable. An official estimate of the wine harvest in 1920 gives the following figures:—France, 16,034,124 hectolitres; Algeria, 7,041.220. — A.' and N.Z. Gable, - The trial of Communists has concluded. All were acquitted.—A. and N.Z. Cable LONDON, March 17. The Franco-British Convention which has been dealing with the boundaries of Syria provides that all disputes shall be referred to the Council of the League of Nations, whose decision shall be’ final.—A. and N.Z. Cable. The King received an ovation at the Liverpool races. To-morrow the King and Queen, Princess Mary, and the Prince of Wales will witness the Grand National. In view of the Sinn Fein outrages in the district, armed police will be present to safeguard the course of the jumps. Fire extinguishers will be at hand.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ■ ■ ■ ■ A medical expert states that Christopherson’s antimony treatment for the bilhnrzia hsenotafa microbe has proved a complete cure. This is a tremendous achievement, defeating an ancient plague’ of Egypt and of almost the whole of the African Continent. —Times. The Phosphate Commissioner and the Ministry of Agriculture have sold Great Britain’s share of the yearly output of phosphate from Nauru Island to the South Wales Basic Slag Company. A proportion is to be sold next season as basic phosphate at under 3s per unit of phosphate of lime, delivered to farmers. —A. and N.Z. Cable. A deputation representing retail tobacconists interviewed members of the House of Commons, asking them to support the complete removal of the 50 per cent, duty on Havana cigars. They state that 40,000,000 cigars are now in bond, and are unsaleable.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BUCHAREST, March 17. Rumania Las decided to proclaim the union of occupied Hungarian territory with Rumania. —A. and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, March 17. • Advices from Havana state that Dr Alfred Zayas has been elected President of the Cuban Government. So far it has not been announced that the United States fleet will visit Australasia.— Reuter. DELHI, March 17. 1 (Received March 19, at 0.10 a.m.) At the first day’s examinations at the Benares University the non-co-operators lay on the hall steps to prevent the entry of professors and students. The latter jumped oyer them or entered through the windows. On the second day the non-co-operators squatted closely before the entrance, and one student failed to enter. On the. third day the-men squatted at the front of the entrances on grass mats, selling beads_ and invoking Providence to make the examinees unsuccessful. Beads were spread on the steps to frighten the religious element. All entered amid the loud curses of, the obstructionists. The students fear that the same tactics will be adopted at the forthcoming Allahabad University examination. —A. and N.Z. Cable. . TOKIO, March 17. (Received March la, at 1.25 a.m.) .Work will commence on April 1 on the Extension of the railway connecting the South Manchurian and Mongolian borders, the construction to reach Taonan (in Mongolia). A loan from the Manchurian railway to the Chinese Ministry makes the work possible.—Reuter.