GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170576, 5 August 1921, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Auutrahan and N.Z. Cable Association.

Sir Alfred Mond, in the House of Commons, said that the Government had decided to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the question of the Government lor Greater London. Tho last similar commission was held in 1883, from which Loudon County Council was created. Tlie Presidency Secretary of Havana has announced that the sale of 1,000,000 tons of sugar to the German Government is likely. Sir Eric Geddos (Minister of Transport), who is resigning his portfolio shortly, lias undertaken to devote his whole time for the remainder of the year to the work of a select committee on economy. As the result of oppressive heat in Belgium farmers arc working night instead of iu the day time. Searchlights are attached to cutters and binders. . . It is estimated that Signor Caruso earned 10,000.000 dollars during his career. His estate is o»d- w-ibied ;t 30,000,000 lire, and is divided in six portions to his stepmother, brother, throe children and his wife. _ Britain has officially notvned the League of Nations that the Bmisn Empire as a whole has ratified the statute providing for tho creation of a permanent Court el International

Justice. , , . The State Department .at- \\aslnngton has announced officially that it proposed November 1 L lor th*v openmp; of the Disarmament (hilercnco, 1,ll “ agreement lias not yet been reached. London’s 70 dnv drought broke today, when ton points of rain tell, in a thunder shower, lasting an hour.