GENERAL CABLES

Timaru Herald, Issue 171, 22 May 1920, Page 14

GENERAL CABLES

A prohibition referendum will betaken in Queensland, ou October 30. A case of pneumonic, milueiiza, developed on the minesweeper Geranium at feyduey. Dinted States exports fell off £135,OOU.O'UU rn April, compared with March., aim imports'dropped £30,000,000. in tho Eederal House of Rrepresentatives, Mr Hughes introduced a, Bill increasing members' salaries to £IOOO annually. Some opposition, was manifested. The Government has offered eleven acres behind the British Museum, as a site for the London University. It is worth £1,000.000, but the national finances will not permit tho Government to provide premises. Major Tarrant has purchased for 8000 guineas Our Stephen (named afteaStephen Donoghue) who won the Great. Noiiiiern Handicap at York, worth 980 m guineas, beating Keysoe, the St. Legeiwinner, which swas the only other starter. Our Stephen will shortly goto India. A Sydney message says that General Booth was" entertained by the .Millions Club. Dealing with "the problem ot tho high cost of living, he urged thai" increased wages were not benefiting the workers. . There should be some combination between the" -workers and 'employers to .solve, this problem of the cost of living. lie believed that it could be solved by production. The March quarter return of births, : marriages, and .deaths for England and Wales show .'that births totalled,271,082, which is a record. Deaths numbered 137,637, of which 4037 were duo to influenza., Infant mortality was SS per 1000. which is 32 per .rOOO below the average of the ten preceding first quarters. Marriages during the quarter totalled 238,460-. • The Minoworkers'' --Union of .Johannesburg passed a resolution demanding the immediate nationalisation of all gold mines, with control by tho workers. A Committee has ben formed to consider the establishment of a State Grand.. Opera Company in .Melbourne and the erection of a. State Opera House. In the Capetown Assembly, a. petition, bearing 8000 signatures was .presented by the congress of the League of Municipalities, Chambers of Commerce and other public bodies of white, inhabitants of the Transvaal,' asking the House to take into consideration the Asiatic ■menace in. that province. ■■■■■-,-. I