GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170267, 12 July 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

It is officially'announced from-WasS£; ington that the United % unofficially represented at sels Financial Conference. ThreeyxpJ& presentatives will be serve proceedings, but tfie'-^UnyieS 4 States cannot be bound by "any oEgSib l deliberations. - " -";..-"S|^i The British .Select Committee on*njr4; Honal expenditure seriously __ the Government depots at SlbupKfljnfiP St. Omer urged that the -Mmig£iggj|ol>| Munitions should cease as. ing department, and. drew atleuSonl to tlie fact that the .twenty-two millions for -current estimates-. • ~*-';-3#*?fl An Ottawa -messase states 1 ' L. A. Tascherean (Minister, for lEiifilKg Works nnd Labour), has ;^ten*"s^Si : s in as Premier of Quebec province|jTs*| Sir Lomer Gouin, resigned. (Sir Loreer| Gouin has been Premier of-'QcLebeo'l since 1905.) - . /-%•§£s A London message states inai*tKe* Victorian conversion prospectus been issued for £2,725,000. t'erest sit Ci per cent., to be. par, repayable in 1923-5. . 'Sfe-jS A inessage fiom Lawrence, chusetts. via New York, states four mills- of the American. Company have been shut down indefinite period because of- lacE2o?s orders. Fourteen thousand employees! are out of work. The company's otferj mills- will also close shortly. _ The "French _ President, M. ORoui-C Desehanel, who some weeks tained serious injuries "Sy railing ;froni 'f :i railway train, is-still suffering:.fronsV a serious' nervous breakdown,*-' sn&tlisj unlikely to resume duties for time. .It is even believed shortly retire. There are indicatigns? that ;i Presidential canvass is -afojjtij: M. Millerand and General' are mentioned as <" probable didates. - IZE&M Lord Burnham lias taken a .thousand?, shares in the Billis Austra"lian'"larins| scheme. " .". -"^l^S? Massonu. who, on June. niiemptgi ed to 1:511 the Premier of»-Egyp£* r ?>y~ throwing a bomb at his c-af,*thercnafc| four, two pedestrians and injured, and who twice lieeman .wlio pursued him, has^ - been! executed. . j-^-iJ-Ss A 25 miliion dollar 8 per loan, offered on the New York-markes! at par was absorbed within'- twentv-I four hours. " " ""^3ss>"!lis The Commonwealth has removed£thej embargo on the export of sfleen&in"sV?l> The I/epartnieut of Labour" ed that there were 3374 the United States in 1919. affecting! more than four million- workers. -4-^~~-gf

Vessel® numbering 2241 anil afigreif S-itifvi 3.560.454 gross tons w e in the United States ended June 30.- -4* <■ ■ "S J?