MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18310, 29 July 1921, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

P'ms Association —By Telegraph—Copyright

' In the House of Commons Sir L. Worthington Evans said that to the end of last vear 138 members of the British army on tlie Rhine had married Germans.— 4and N.Z. Cable.

The Italian fiscal year closed with a deficit of 10,300,000,000 lire, instead of 14,225,000,000, as forecasted.

The Prince of Whiles unveiled a memorial to the Dover patrol at Leathercote. a point four miles east of' Dover. H.R.H. said that the traditions of 'the Cinque Ports wore worthily upheld in our own times by the men who patrolled the'Straits of Dover in the face of unknown perils against a merciless enemy. The Chief Justice, in the High Court in Sydney, before reserving judgment in an appeal by tho Newcastle Steamship Company and others, who are challenging the validity of the Navigation Act, said that the court was unanimously of opinion that the Act could not apply to inter-State navigation. Mr J. M. Parton, president of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, in an address on the industrial position, stated dint had the, miners at Newcastle and Maitland coalfields worked without stoppages, and endeavoured to get the maximum output, the difference between the actual and possible earnings in the past 15 months have purchased one of the best collieries in the district.

There was a novel use of -wireless in mid-Atlantic. A member of the crew of a tramp ship died. The captain had no copy of the burial service. A Ounarder ■wirelessed the service, and the burial was carried out as the operator on the ‘tramp” translated the message.