GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, August 3. Replying to a qu> ..tto.i m t.io Hom w mh-umurm, An. .xuieiy e...„ XfUx£LMeriil o ..i.LtJ G.ClfcE.v.y,. OL WllUfll j V/cJlc lu Aii.»u ~xid lu .xe.v zeaiana. 'lae total <xi.€xiuiiure was auu -i-o v. *io catii’uly bv/iie oy ui-c Iluiau uu» eriiaieiit. 'me Federation of Shipbuilding ' Employers’ meeting at Edinburgh considered the failure to end the ship-joiners’ strike. They regard the position as most serious in view of the orders going abroad and the absence of orders in the home yards, The meeting decided that they could not make the joiners a new offer. The House of Commons sat till 3.45 a.m., xvhen the Licensing Bill xvas read a third time. The measure provides that publichouses be open for eight hours daily in provinces, and nine hours in London, and five hours on lt permits drinking in restaurants till 12.30, and abolishes the bona fide traveller. The Russian Trade Delegation in London lias taken a new six-story building in the city containing four hundred rooms, where a special Russian bank is to be established. The All-Russia Co.operative Society will shortly hold in London an exhibition of Russian products. NEW YORK, August 3. A telegram from Pittsburg states that rain has prevented the Austra. lian and British tennis teams from practising during the Idst two days. Ingersley and Hendrickson (Denmark's Davis Cup representatives) have arrived. WASHINGTON, August 3 The State Department has announced officially that they proposed November 11th for the opening of the Disarmament Conference, but an agreement has not been reached. SYDNEY, August 4. The spread of tick pest in the North Coast districts is causnig serious alarm. The dairying industry is menaced. The Under-Secretary for Agriculture, after extended investigations states that £120,000 will be required for protective measures during the coming season. Half a million has been spent in the past fourteen years in efforts to eradicate tick. HAVANA, August 3. The Presidency Secretary has an. nounced that the sale of a million tons of sugar to the German Govern meat is likely. ADELAIDE, August 4,

The Premier has announced that the Government intends ta adhere to the wheat decision. The censure debate has been adjourned.