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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17731, 3 December 1919, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES. ■ —/■ ,—. . LONDON, November 30. As a protest against not being, consulted in regard to the recent changes in the price of coal, the miners' delegates on the Advisory Committee of the, Coal Controller have resigned, including Messrs Smillie and Hartshorn. CAPETOWN, December 1. Details of the disaster to the Smithsonian expedition show that the train was telescoped by a rail-< way truck. The deaths are Dr. Armstrong /(not Shautz). and Stowell. . WASHINGTON, December 1. An American new Note to Mexico refuses to discuss the irrelevancies, and demands Mr. Jenkin's instant release on bail. The Note does not threaten further action, however. PARIS, December 1. The, Supreme Council has decided to open peace pourparlers with Hungary. SYDNEY, December 2. An expedition from the London Tropical School of Medicine has arrived, en route to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, to investigate tropical diseases. . Although not abandoning the principle of the Children's Maintenance Bill, the Government has decided to accept the Board of Trade's declaration of a living wage of £3 17s. MELBOURNE, December 2. The Government has decided to distribute the canteen profits to dependents of deceased soldiers. The Federal Government has announced thjat they are giving the Northern Territory a representative in ithe Senate, who will be entitled to speak and vote on all Northern Territory questions. NEW YORK, December 1. According to a message from Pittsburg, Government troops- have manned the coalmines. A train full of troops was derailed, but the soldiers escaped with little injury. BERLIN, November 30. A sensational story ha 3 been published, alleging that documents have been discovered proving that prominent Socialists including Eoerc, Noske, and Scbiedemann participated in extensive smuggling and profiteering by which large fortunes were made daily. The Mail correspondent, states that the documents relate to gigantic transactions, one involving a million sterling. Schiedemann declares i that a majority of the documents! are impudent forgeries, but asserts that the others will bear the closest inspection. LONDON, November 30. The Cabinet is considering three schemes of Empire wireless, the first erection and management by the Government, the second the license of private enterprise, and the third private enterprise with State co-op-eration under State control. SYDNEY, December 1. Useful rain has fallen in the eastern half of the State and Riverina. The drought in western districts is not relieved. MELBOURNE, December 1. Mr. Piddingtou, X.C.. has been appointed chairman of (he basic wage commission created by the Commonwealth Government to commence an inquiry immediately. Federal quarantine authorities, commenting upon the Now Zealand Health authorities' cable that the outbreak of influenza is mild tin nature, deprecate a recrudescence. They say there is no reason for assuming another serious outbreak here next year. ! DON'T LIGHT THE COPPER ON WASHING DAtf. Clothes- need no boiling when Fairy Wonder Dry Soap is n&ed. Unlike other wsisbing ponders, Fairy Wonder contains no paraffin wax that makes the clothes yellow, instead of 1/10 racket, sufficient for 12 washings. Try it. fTfafldren liko WADE'S WORM FIGS '-cure and certain. Prioo 1/Q.