GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18163, 27 April 1921, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, April 25. Lord Derby, speaking at Liverpool, admitted that he went to Ireland inI cognito because lie desired freedom j from the übiquitous reporter. He I would not divulge who he saw as it would be a breach of confidence. “I bad no mission from the Govern- | ment, but went unknown to them, except the Premier. I was depressed by what I saw. I am going again.” 1 Lord Derby, alluding to his recent references to Mr Lloyd George, stated in an interview that he had no mandate from the Conservative Party to open its arms to the Premier. or from Mr Lloyd George to say that he wished to fall into those arms. There was an old saying that the reformed poacher made the best gamekeper. It so, there could not be a better recruit to Unionism than Mr Lloyd George. SYDNEY. April 26. Besides loans for 6 J millions, which Mr Storey arranged in LonI don, he.is also arranging the conversion of other State loans falling due in the next two years. LONDON. April 25. - Coates have reduced the price of cotton a penny per four hundred yards reel. The apple market has eased considerably, the retailers finding that the public will not pay sufficiently high prices to justify the extravagant first-hand prices paid last week. The Hon. F. G. Kellaway has been re-elected for Bedford, polling 14,397 votes against Mr. Riley (Labour), 9 731. WASHINGTON, April 25. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has favourably reported on the Knox peace resolution with only slight formal changes. VIENNA, April 25. The Tyrol plebiscite resulted in 1.12,000 votes in favour of annexation by Germany and 15,000 votes against. The plebiscite in Tyrol was unauthorised and taken in defiance of the Vienna Government and the Allies, who will not permit the union. LONDON, April 25. Le Petit Parisienne’s Berlin correspondent states that the proposals to President Harding are a compromise betwen the French demands and the German proposals at London, which were adopted in the hope that America was advancing suggestions relating to finance.