GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 25 June 1924, Page 9

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

It is understood that the Nizam ot Hyderabad has granted a lite pen Mon of £3OO monthly to the ex-Khali.a Abdul Magid. Garlick’s timber mill at Powell Town, near Melbourne, was completely cestroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. The “Sunday Times” states that, following on 'Government authorisation, the Royal Mint, London has i.egun the manufacture of 40,000,ui silvev half roubles for tho Soviet Government. The coin will be worth about Is. Mr Justice Ashmore decided, at Edinburgh, that under Scottish law a woman legally was married to a man who died before marriage; furthm, that the child born was legimate. The woman swore that she was engaged to bo married, and the banns were pub lished, but; the bridegroom died mno days before the date fixed for the dingThe Berlin correspondent of iho “Times" savs that the new Zeppelin, constructed to the order of the United States, is expected to leave Erederichsliaven early in August, making tho iourney in eighty hours. Tt will the North Sea to a point in Scotland and thence will follow the route of the British airship, which crossed the Atlantic two years ago.

The Committee on Night Work in Bakeries, appointed by the _ rnterne.tional Labour Conference, sitting at Geneva, rejected by 19 votes to 1(3. tho employers’ delegate’s proposal :n favour of merely a communication of recommendation to the various Governments, instead of establishing an International Convention in favour of the prohibition of night work.

Bishop Trower, of Broome, after fourteen years’ experience of the northern areas of Australia, declares emphatically for the introduction < t coloured labour. He urges a system of bringing indentured labourers from Southern India and suggests that natives should be imported in family groups, with a proviso that children should be deported with their parents, when their term of indenture ends.

An Association message from Sydney says that the steady increase in Sunday games is viewed with growing alarm by Sabbatarians. Amongst the protests is one from tho Christian Temperance Union at Glen Innes, which has asked the Mayor to extend the prohibition of games during church hours to tho whole day. The Church Federation of Brisbane has asked the Government to refuse to sanction the Citv Council’s proposal to repeal the by-law against Sunday games.