GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 20 July 1925, Page 12

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Tlio first small consignment of Auckland grape fruit has arrived in London. It is too small and rather vasty, and the regular trade refused to buy, and the consignment was sold to a costermonger at 3s a case.

At the annual meeting of the League of New South Wales Wheelmen, it was decided to confer with other professional bodies with a view to requesting the Government to repeal the Gaming and Betting Act, and legalise betting at sports meetings.

The Belgian Prime Minister, M. Yanderveldt, speaking in the Chamber, said that Beigium, while anxious to recognise the Soviet, was unable to do so until she received guarantees regarding the independence of Georgia and the recognition of the claims of Belgians who were deprived of tlicir piopcity in Russia.

M. Charles Maurras, editor of “Action Francaisc,” was sentenced to two rears’ imprisonment, and in default fined 1000 franc, on a charge of publishing an open letter, declaring that if the Minister of the Interior, M.. Chromeck, attempted to disarm members of the League of “Action I'rancaise” without disarming the Communists, he would kill him like a dog.

The marriage was performed, at tho Registrv Office at Oxford, of Princess Nine Odivani, a beautiful girl of twenty-two, described as the daughter of Zakbari Odivani, Prince and general on the suite of the O/.ar Nicholas, to Charles llenry Hubericb, an American lawyer, and author of volumes on tho commercial law ol Australia. New Zealand and Canada, in a work entitled, “Commercial Laws of the York!.’’

A .White Paper has been issued i:i London, containing the correspondence

relating to tlio position of the Dominions with regard to the Geneva Protocol, comprising telegrams exchanged between the Colonial Secretary and tho Governor-Generals of tho Dominions, tho Irish Free State and tho Governor of Newfoundland, between November 21, 1924, and June 26, 1925, covering tho Imperial Government’s inquiries with regard to the possibility of arranging a special Imperial Conference to discuss tho Questions arising from the Protocol, which was found to bo impossible. It also contains telegrams detailing the Dominions’ objections to tho Protocol, and approving of tho Imperial Cabinet’s decision not to accept it.