GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16882, 1 August 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, j Australian and JS T .Z. Cable Assn.' \ LONDON, July 26. I The London County Council has allocated £1,200,000" for a garden suburb. ' There will be twenty houses per acre and the btreets will be forty feet wide. LONDON, July 29. The Board of Trade is holding an exhibition of- Empire timber an London in the autumn ot 1920. Australia will show woods, furniture and other manufactured articles. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 26. Tho Greek army in Smyrna, district is now secure, numbering 50,000, against 17,000 Turkish irregulars who wore maltreating" arid murdering Greek cilvilians. LONDON, July 27. Theatre managers, artists and milliners unanimously affirm that war work has not tarnished British women's beauty. Mr George Grossmith declares that tho standard of feminine loveliness has been improved, and Mr Ambrose Mcßvoy says that their delicacy of colouring has been heightened. NEW YORK. Julv 31. Martial law has been proclaimed in Chicago, to prevent a, further spread of race riots. " SYDNEY, July 3] . Jt is understood that the estate of the late Sir Samuel McCaughey is valued at between £1,000,000 and £2,000,000, the greater portion of which is to be devoted to educational and charitable objects. The death is announced of Sir Simon Eraser, the politician and pastoralist, aged 87 years.