OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17710, 3 December 1925, Page 12

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

SYDNEY. December 2. Senator Cox was the first Senator to be elected in New South Wales. He received the required number of votes to-day on the ninth count. PARIS, December 1. Professor Jominek affirms that electrocution is only apparent death, as the victims ran be revived bv artificial respiration if it is persisted in for two hours, ancLspecial apparatus used. bY DNEY, December 2. Argument on the constitutional aspect of the Deportation Act occupied the attention of the High Court to-day. It was not concluded when the Court rose. LONDON, December 1. In the House of Commons, Mr Adamson, a Labour member, who persisted in ignoring the Deputy-Speaker's ruling that he could not ask an urgent question was, amid disorder, on Mr Churchill s motion, suspended by 260 votes to 91, and an angry scene ended. WASHINGTON, December 1. Tlie Roumanian commission has accepted the American offer for funding the debt and the terms have been submitted for President Coolidge’s approval. It is indicated that they are along the general lines of the British settlement. except that slightly easier payments are set for the early years. MELBOURNE, December 2. A stop-work meeting of Victorian seamen carried a motion condemning the attitude of the Sydney branch in declaring against a strike in the event of the deportation of Walsh and Johnson and of the sections of the industrial movement which made similar decisions. The motion urged the industrial movement to take effective action to combat the deportation of the Union leaders. OTTAWA, December 1. "We have had no request of anv kind from the British Admiralty for any such contribution, or any suggestion of it." said the Hon E. M. MacDonald, Minister of National Defence, in commenting on the London despatch to the effect that Earl Jellicoe had suggested certain naval contributions t?y Oanada towards the cost of the Imperial navy. Apropos of the suggestion made bv Earl Jellicoe that! Canada should, in addition to other Imperial naval assistance, contribute 36.000,000 dollars yearly towards the cost of the Imperial Navy, records here show that the appropriation made by Parliament last session for the upkeep of the Canadian Navy for the present year was 1.400.000 dollars. A similar sum was appropriated for the same purpose in tlie fiscal year, 1924-25.