GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1923, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn Athens. Sixty per cent, of the voters ”in Athens and the Piraeus abstained Rom voting, being chiefly Zaimis’ party. There were forty-five per cent, abstentions in the provinces. Tokio, Dec. 20. A Bill providing for the reduction of the restoration .budget passed the Lower House by a large majority. The newspapers anticipate the Government wiK introduce the promised suffrage Bills at the forthcoming regular session of the Diet and go to the country on thia issue. Paris. Dec. 20. It is hoped Hungary will be restored after the manner of Austria as a result, of a recent agreement reached by the council the League of Nations regarding an international financial scheme. London, Dec. 21. A branch of the National Provincial Bank opens in January at Waterloo station. It is expected every big railway terminus will shortly have branches of the leading banks, which will remain open until seven instead of three, and thus enable people to cash cheques and bookmakers and others returning from race meetings to deposit large sums. London, Dec. 21. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says Signor Mussolini, at a meeting of employers and workers, delivered a speech which is regarded as historic from the viewpoint of the Italians. He declared the nation mu t present a united front between capital and labour; men must be taken as they are, and class warfare avoided. The meeting unanimously approved of the jpeech, and decided to draw up a scheme for national and permanent co-opera-tion.