GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16883, 2 August 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

| By Electric „ Australian and'N.Z. Cable Assn-7- ; LONDON," J n'y'29./' . A wireless Hungarian .. communique admits rcthement, on the 29th behind the Theiss, .in order to obviate collision Vith greatly supeiior" Roumanian .fqree-s. >..- / /A White Paver fehows-tho estimated armycxpenditure ior the year at 287 millions sterling ' , ( On an application on behalf of Mrs Atherton's child by her first'marriage, the Court granted letters of administra-tion-to her, sister, Mrs, Stackpool. Counsel said that there was no will made sines Mrs Atherton married Captain Eliot. *., ■ At the C4oodwood meeting the Stewards' Cup resulted—King Sol 1, Irish Eleganco 2, Seatwill 3. The death is announced of Mr George Adolphus Storey. Professor'of Perspective of the Royal Academy since 1914. In the Houie of -Commons Mr Harmsworth announced that no decision had been reached regarding Cyprus. A Japanese syndicate have purchased 800,000 acres on the upper reaches of the Amazon, suitable for sugar, coffee and cotton, as the forerunner cf 'oig Japanese colonisation schemes in Peru. PARIS, July 29. The Government has purchased the American army's immense war stock jr. Fiance, including fifty thousand motor. cai>. and fifty thousand motor loirics, for 1300 million dollars. The Laon iiiforraeis have been sentenced as follu-fts: —Toque and seven others to death, the others to various 'term of imprisonment. including Thomas to a Year,. Six were- acquitted. VIENNA. July 27.

Count Karolyi was arrested at Prague. He had been travelling with bis wife and u=ing false passports. NEW YORK, July 30. There is a movement on foot here to send an American polo team to England next summer for a -series of games against British teams at Hurlingbam, Rockhampton and other English polo centres. It is not contempleted that ibis team will compete for the international trophy. HOBART, August I. The Assembly approved of incr"asing ibo salaries of members to £3OO, and [Ministers' salaries from £7OO to £IOOO. MELBOURNE, August 1. Victoria has sold 3000 tons of inferior wheat to Japan at 6s IJd per bushel. In the House of Representatives the H6ri. A. Poyntoh announced that the Navy will revert to tho control of tho Commonwealth from to-day. SYDNEY, August 1. In the Broken Hill five the damag'a is now estimated at £IOO,OOO. The police as investigating. The Sydney postal authorities notify that direct letter mail service to Germany is now pprmissable. Sir Samuel McCnughev's estate is valued at £1,500,000. The Wqucsts include abom, -£400,000 to the Svdney and £200.000 to the Brisbane "Universities; £250,000 to the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales and Queensland, and a large sun; for the widows and orphans of soldiers killed in the war.