MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16496, 5 August 1921, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Twenty Japanese, many of whom arc prominent persons, have been indicted at Honolulu on charges of critnina; conspiracy in connection with the violence attending the sugar plantation strike last year. Wednesday night’s storm in Sydney p-layed havoc with the historic Si George’s Free Presbyterian Church ii: Castlecreagh Street. The upper portior of the tower. 120 feet high, wa> canted and displaced pieces stnashcc through the roof. The tower has r dangerous lean and the street is barricaded. Tram traffic is stopped. Gales, rain and snow arc causing ex tensive damage in Now South Wales A teamster near Crook well had hi? camp banked in bv snowdrifts and was frozen to death. This is the second similar case at Crookwell. where a

half-caste was frozen to cleatii a few days ago. In order to obviate tbe necessity of dismissal of two hundred employees at the Fitbgow Small Arms factory in i New South Wales the employees decided to reduce working hours to thirty-six weekly, and to receive less wages. The memorial service to the late Air T. J. Bryan was largely attended, including many members of the Federal and State Parliaments. .Labour Parliamentarians, delivered eloquent tributes i to tbe late leader. The Queensland ATinister of Alines has refused tbe application of the Mount Morgan Company to be exempted from labour conditions for six mouths. Seven members of the famous “ White Sox ” baseball team were acquitted by a jury on a charge Of selling the 3 919 series of games and were, subsequently banned by the Baseball Commission from ever again playing. The Commission decided that any player who bad confessed to throwing away a game or having conspired with gamblers with a view to throwing -a game away should not be reinstated. The New A'ork ** AVorld ’’ reports the arrest of Roberto Gibaric, charged with the theft of 136.000 dollars of the Russian Soviet's funds. Tt stated that a shortage of nearly a million dollars was discovered in Soviet funds deposited ip a New A'ork bank. The American police arc busy bunting down a gang of mail robbers and counterfeiters whose alleged bead is a man named John Worthington. Theii peculations total millions of dollars, including a million from a Toledo bank : three. hundred thousand from a Chicago bank and three and a half millions from a Council Bluffs (Towa> bank. Among the effects of the gang which the Government seized were nearly half n million dollars' worth of its own bonds, which have been identified as part of the proceeds of bank robberies. Sir Alfred Alond iu the House ot Commons said the Government had decided to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the question of government for Greater Londob. The last similar commission was held in 1883, from which the London County Council was created. A memorial service in Berlin to Sii Roger Casement on August 2 was attended by the complete Irish colony,, including Air Gaffney, the former Cou-bul-General and many Irish-Americans and Germans. A device whe-rc-bv it is claimed the telephone can he- harnessed, to submarine cables has been inventor] by Gaston Vincent and Louis du Verger, two French engineers. The Governmerit has sanctioued experiment with the new principle, which it is claimed can be applied to all existing submarine , cables.